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CTAN update: glossaries

Date: September 24, 2009 5:19:56 PM CEST
quoth the upload daemon (to a background of tex live rumblings and start-of-academic-year rushes): > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: glossaries > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Author's email: N.Talbot at uea.ac.uk > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/glossaries > Summary description: Create glossaries and lists of acronyms > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.03: > > * Added check to see if \glossarymark has been defined > > * makeglossaries - failed file test messages printed to > stdout instead of stderr (so that it doesn't interrupt > latexmk). > > * Fixed bug when used with tabularx. > > * Added package option hyperfirst (boolean option to suppress > hyperlink on first use). > > * Added pod to makeglossaries. thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/glossaries.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries of course, the catalogue entry will change (in a small way) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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).

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