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CTAN Update: glossaries

Date: February 28, 2008 2:44:47 PM CET
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Nicola Talbot submitted an update to the glossaries package. 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. 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:
v1.1 (22 Feb 2008): * New package options: - numberline: inserts \numberline{} in \addcontentsline when used with the toc option. - numberedsection: puts glossaries in numbered chapters/sections - translate: translate=false option prevents glossaries package from using pre-supplied translations. - description: changes definition of \newacronym to allow a description - footnote: changes definition of \newacronym to use a footnote on first use - smallcaps: changes definition of \newacronym to set acronyms in small capitals - dua: changes definition of \newacronym to always expand acronyms * Added \setglossarysection - changes the section type used by the glossaries * Added listdotted glossary style. * No longer uses xspace package; uses amsgen instead. * Added \glsname, \glsdesc, \glssymbol, \glsfirst, \glstext, \glsplural and \glsfirstplural. * Added support for translator package. The url for the glossaries FAQ is now http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/packages/faq/glossaryfaq.html
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=glossaries (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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 Rainer Schöpf

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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