CTAN Update: glossaries
Major update. glossaries.sty has changed the way information is written to external glossary files. This means that descriptions can span multiple paragraphs without exceeding makeindex's buffer. It also reduces the amount of escaping of xindy/makeindex special characters and obviates the need for sanitizing of the name, description and symbol keys. The new version should work with documents created with older versions, but you may get deprecated warnings. New package glossaries-prefix.sty added to the bundle. See CHANGES file for full list of updates.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/glossaries We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
glossaries – Create glossaries and lists of acronyms
The glossaries package supports acronyms and multiple glossaries, and has provision for operation in several languages (using the facilities of either babel or polyglossia). New entries are defined to have a name and description (and optionally an associated symbol). Support for multiple languages is offered, and plural forms of terms may be specified. An additional package, glossaries-accsupp, can make use of the accsupp package mechanisms for accessibility support for PDF files containing glossaries.
The user may define new glossary styles, and preambles and postambles can be specified. There is provision for loading a database of terms, but only terms used in the text will be added to the relevant glossary.
The package uses an indexing program to provide the actual glossary; either makeindex or xindy may serve this purpose, and a Perl script is provided to serve as interface.
This package requires the mfirstuc package.
The package supersedes the author’s glossary package (which is now obsolete).
| Package | glossaries |
| Version | 4.54 2024-04-03 |
| Copyright | 2007–2024 Nicola Talbot |
| Maintainer | Nicola Talbot |