How to fix superscripts in glossaries with parameters

Question

Inspired by this question I created a glossary entry with an optional parameter as a subscript. However when I try to have a superscript there as well I can't use the trick where I pass the superscript as an optional argument because I already have one. Is there any workaround?

MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{glossaries-extra}
\glsnoexpandfields
\newglossaryentry{A}{
    category={arg},
    user1={1},
    name={(A_{\glsarg})},
    text={A_{\glsarg}},
    description={A}}
\preto\glsentryfmt{%
    \glsifcategory{\glslabel}{arg}% if category set to "arg"
    {%
        \ifdefempty\glsinsert
        {\glsfieldfetch{\glslabel}{useri}{\glsarg}}%
        {%
            \let\glsarg\glsinsert
            \let\glsinsert\empty
        }%
    }%
    {}%
}
\begin{document}
    Tried:
    [\gls{A}[ij]^T]
    [\gls{A}[ij^T]]
    Desired outcome:
    [A^T_{ij}]
\end{document}

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 20 '17 at 20:04

You essentially have this:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
\newcommand{\glsarg}{ij^T}
\[A_{\glsarg}\]
\end{document}

which puts ij^T as the subscript (that is, A_{ij^T}) where ^T is the superscript of j.

The following, which moves the braces, works:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
\newcommand{\glsarg}{{ij}^T}
\[A_\glsarg\]
\end{document}

Applying this to the MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{glossaries-extra}
\glsnoexpandfields

\newglossaryentry{A}{
    category={arg},
    user1={1},
    name={\(A_{\glsarg}\)},
    text={A_\glsarg},
    description={A}}

\preto\glsentryfmt{%
    \glsifcategory{\glslabel}{arg}% if category set to "arg"
    {%
        \ifdefempty\glsinsert
        {\glsfieldfetch{\glslabel}{useri}{\glsarg}}%
        {%
            \let\glsarg\glsinsert
            \let\glsinsert\empty
        }%
    }%
    {}%
}

\begin{document}
Compare
\[\gls{A}[{ij}^T]\]
With:
\[A^T_{ij}\]
\end{document}

Note that with this method you must remember to always apply the grouping in the optional argument if there's more than one subscript. For example:

\[\gls{A}[{ij}]\]

How to fix superscripts in glossaries with parameters

MWE

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