I am using the glossaries package to generate a nice list of acronyms. For often used acronyms I defined some shortcuts, e.g. \newcommand{\myshortcut}{\acrshort{myacronym}}. The acronym myacronym has been defined before with \newacronym{myacronym}{myacronym}{myacronym is a dummy acronym used in this text}. The Problem is, when I use \acrshort{myacronym} everything works well, but if I use \myshortcut, the acronym link is generated and added to my glossary (as it should behave), but in addition to that if a space symbol follows in behind of the acronym at the position it is used in the text, this space symbol is lost!
At first I tried to workaround this problem by changing the shortcut Definition to \newcommand{\myshortcut}{\acrshort{myshortcut}\space}. This works but of course this will also generate an additional space when I don't want to have it in behind, e.g. at the end of a sentence.
Now my question is can I either find out if the next symbol is a space character and add it than to my shortcut definition or is there another (perhaps simplier) way to solve this problem.
Thanks to you in advance!
xspacepackage – Andrew Swann May 21 '15 at 07:43