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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 lists of acronyms License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

v1.18:

• fixed missing closing } in glossaries-babel.sty

• added glstarget so that glossary styles can be modified in the document without using internal commands.

• glossary-super.sty isn't loaded if supertabular.sty isn't installed.

• added nolong, nosuper, nolist, notree and nostyles package options to prevent loading unnecessary packages.

• added oldacronym (emulates the old glossary package's

ewacronym command).

• added sublistdotted style.

• fixed bug caused by misspelt glspagewidthlist (should be glspagelistwidth).

• fixed border in super4colheaderborder and altsuper4colheaderborder styles.

• fixed sort sanitization when package option sanitize={name=false} is used.

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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 _______________________________________________

i have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. updates to catalogue entries (such as they are) will take place overnight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team