TLDR; Assume glossary entries with B-[see]-A, and C-[see]-B, when B is referenced in text the glossary shows C and B (!?). How can I make the glossary show A and B and not C?
It seems that the cross reference engine loops in cross-reference dependencies using [see] and [seealso] in an inverted manner. I have found no documentation on this particular situation. With the example above I would assume the glossary to show B and A, i.e. the term I referenced and the terms referenced by the term I referenced. Rather than terms referencing the terms I referenced (read slowly :-) ).
My actual case is that I use a very very large glossary, which I intentionally built up with [see] and [seealso] going in the direction towards the most general term (my intention was that a pub science text which only referenced the most general terms would not automagically copy in all the more advanced terms and concepts).
See below example, which illustrated that cross-references seem to "go the wrong way" (in my opinion, i reference from higher to lower number, and have some references between "concepts"), by showing
- l2 (referenced in text)
- l3 (not referenced at all, but references l2 by cross-ref [see])
- o2 (referenced directly by l2)
- o3 (not referenced at all, references o2 by cross-ref [seealso])
I would like to show:
- l2 (referenced in text)
- l1 (referenced by l2 by cross-ref [see])
- o2 (referenced directly by l2)
- o1 (referenced by o2 by cross-ref [seealso])
Note that m2 does not show, and seems to behave as I would expect it to (m2 references l2 via \gls in the description, I would assume that \gls in description behaves as [see]).
MWE: (using hyperref with colorlinks to show the confusion created by having a link with no proper visible target)
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage[automake]{glossaries-extra}
\makeglossaries{}
\newglossaryentry{l1}
{
name=level1,
description={Level 1}
}
\newglossaryentry{l2}
{
name=level2,
description={Level 2, not like \gls{o2} at all.},
see={l1}
}
\newglossaryentry{l3}
{
name=level3,
description={Level 3},
see={l2}
}
\newglossaryentry{o1}
{
name=other1,
description={Other 1}
}
\newglossaryentry{o2}
{
name=other2,
description={Other 2},
seealso={o1}
}
\newglossaryentry{o3}
{
name=other3,
description={Other 3},
see={o2}
}
\newglossaryentry{m2}
{
name=m2,
description={M2, see \gls{l2}}
}
\begin{document}
I reference \gls{l2}, but none of the others directly in the text.
\printglossaries
\end{document}
(Tested glossaries 2019/01/06 v4.42 and glossaries 2020/03/19)
