New CTAN package: glossaries
Date: May 16, 2007 8:09:19 PM CEST
ctan-upload at tex.ac.uk wrote: (isn't it a sweet little machine?)
> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20070516-164353/
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> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
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> Name of contribution: glossaries
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/glossaries
> Summary description: Create glossaries and list of acronyms
> License type: lppl
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> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> The glossaries package supports acronyms and multiple glossaries. New
> entries are defined to have a name and description (and optionally an
> associated symbol.) Plural forms can also be specified. New glossary
> styles can be defined, and preambles and postambles can be
> specified. There is provision for loading a database of terms, only
> terms used in the text will be added to the relevant glossary.
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> *This package replaces the glossary package which is now obsolete.*
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> You can have a look at the package at
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http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries
i've installed the package, and i have also installed nicola's tds-form
.zip file (more or less ready for direct installation) at:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/install/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries.tds.zip
the catalogue entry
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/Catalogue/entries/glossaries.html
will be available in about 4 hours' time.
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).
| Package | glossaries |
| Version | 4.55 2024-11-01 |
| Copyright | 2007–2024 Nicola Talbot
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| Maintainer | Nicola Talbot
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