Multiple glossaries possible?

[t-charlotte]

Hello

I was wondering whether it is possible to use multiple glossaries, instead of a nomenclature and a glossary? The reason I would like to do so, is because the glossaries package provides referencing from text to the entry in the List of Abbreviations while the nomenclature package does not. I have done this before in other projects where it worked fine, but in this thesis template I cannot get it to work properly.

For the List of Abbreviations, I use an acronym-type glossary:

In the preamble:

\input{acronyms.tex}
\newcommand{\glossname}{List of Abbreviations}
\newcommand{\myprintacronyms}{%
\renewcommand{\glossaryname}{\glossname}
\cleardoublepage%
\printglossary[title=\glossname,type=\acronymtype]
\chaptermark{\glossname}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\glossname} %% comment to exclude from TOC
}

replacing \myprintabbreviations by \myprintacronyms in the body of the document. The entries are defined in acronyms.tex in the following format:
\newacronym{DEA}{DEA}{dissociative electron attachment}

For the List of Symbols, I use a regular glossary:

In the preamble:

\newcommand{\glosssname}{List of Symbols}
\input{symbols.tex}
\newcommand{\myprintsymbols}{%
\renewcommand{\glossaryname}{\glosssname}
\cleardoublepage%
\printglossary[title=\glosssname]
\chaptermark{\glosssname}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\glosssname} %% comment to exclude from TOC
}

replacing \myprintnomenclature by \myprintsymbols. The entries are defined in symbols.tex according to
\newglossaryentry{electronmass}{name={\ensuremath{m_e}},description={mass of an electron}} % add extra key type={symbols} when multiple glossaries

These work fine when used independently:

When I combine them, both glossaries are printed successfully but all entries appear twice, once in each glossary. In order to sort them according to glossary, I tried \usepackage[acronym,symbols,nomain]{glossaries} but this makes the lay-out completely change and no glossary entries are printed at all:

The same happened when I tried to define the two glossaries separately using

\newglossary[alg]{acronym}{acr}{acn}{List of Abbreviations}
\newglossary[alg]{symbol}{acr}{acn}{List of Symbols}

Would you happen to know a solution for this?

Best regards

Charlotte