CTAN update: glossaries
Date: June 1, 2009 3:21:33 PM CEST
a distant rumbling is to be heard, and my upload daemon remarks:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: glossaries
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> 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:
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> v2.01:
> * Documentation changes:
> - removed quick guide section from glossaries.pdf and replaced
> it with a separate beginners guide (glossariesbegin.pdf)
> - added a section for front-end or script developers who
> want to access information from the aux file
>
> * Added new ragged right versions of long/super styles
>
> * Added 'nomain' package option to suppress the creation of the
> main glossary
>
> * Added 'nowarn' package option to suppress warnings
>
> * Removed unwanted full stops in transcript messages
>
> * Changed \linewidth to \hsize when setting lengths
>
> * Removed item_02 key from makeindex style file (no such key)
>
> * Moved \@do at wrglossary before term is displayed to prevent
> unwanted whatsit
>
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thanks for the upload.
i have installed the package files, and the file glossaries.tds.zip, and
i have updated the catalogue.
> 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
the web catalogue entry (above) will change, in a small way, overnight.
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 | 4.8 2025-08-11 |
| Copyright | 2007–2025 Nicola Talbot
|
| Maintainer | Nicola Talbot
|
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