Dr Nicola L C Talbot wrote:

Announcement text:

v3.0 (Major changes):

• Documentation has been restructured:

  • glossaries-user: main user manual
  • glossariesbegin: cut-down introduction for beginners
  • mfirstuc-manual: user manual for mfirstuc package
  • glossaries.pdf: documented code for advanced users
  • glossary2glossaries: upgrading from glossary.sty to glossaries.sty

• Added new package options:

  • entrycounter : number main (level 0) entries in the glossary.

  • counterwithin : set parent counter for the entry counter.

  • subentrycounter : number level 1 entries in the glossary.

  • sort : set the sort order to - standard alphabetical (sort=standard), - order of definition (sort=def) - order of use (sort=use)

  • seeautonumberlist : automatically activates the number list for entries that use the see key.

  • savewrites : minimise number of

ewwrite

 - compatible-2.07 :

     bug fixes in v3.0 have cause compatibility problems. This
     package option will restore the old behaviour but bugs will
     remain.  (Should mostly only effect documents that used

oist with a custom Xindy style file.)

• printglossary sets currentglossary to the current glossary's label. (Allows custom glossary styles access to the glossary type.)

• Modified internal workings of acronyms and:

  • Added starred versions of acrshort etc.

  • Added long, short, longplural and shortplural keys (Reserved for use with

ewacronym.)

 - Added analogous longaccess, shortaccess, longpluralaccess
   and shortpluralaccess keys for 

ewacronym in

   glossaries-accsupp.sty

• Added glsseeitemformat to customise the text given in the link created by glsseeitem.

ewglossaryentry key nonumberlist now boolean.

• added debugging commands showgloname etc.

• now loads etoolbox:

  • replaced DeclareRobustCommand with

ewrobustcmd

 - replaced @ifundefined with ifcsundef

 - replaced let...undefined with undef...

• Bug Fixes:

  • now works with equation counter in amsmath's align environment.

  • Mixed counters now work with xindy option.

  • Fixed hyperlinks in location numbers where heH<counter> has a prefix not present in he<counter>.

  • If title specified in printglossary but toctitle hasn't been specified, make toctitle same as supplied title.

ewglossaryentry see key and glssee now sanitize and escape

   special characters before writing to output file. (Allows
   user to redefine seename any point before printglossary or
   printglossaries.)

 - glshyperlink: Changed the default value of the optional argument
                  to glsentrytext instead of glsentryname.

• mfirstuc.sty (v1.05):

  • added glsmakefirstuc (replaces @gls@makefirstuc) to make it easier to customise.

makeglossaries (v2.02):

• now displays version number on startup unless -q

• added more diagnostics to give more helpful messages than those supplied by xindy or makeindex.

i have installed the new version, but the change to the catalogue entry is going to take a little longer than usual. it will be in place by the time the catalogue is updated tonight.

Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/glossaries.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries/

The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) by tomorrow morning.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team