yesterday, my upload daemon wrote:
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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:
v1.17:
changed definition of @glossary to prevent conflict with memoir
added check to determine if printglossary is defined. (If it is, issue warning and redefine.)
provided means to suppress number list for specific entries
provided means to suppress description terminator for specific entries
added cross-referencing support
added hierarchical support
added xindy support
modified glshypernumber to support
ohyperpage
(code provided by Heiko Oberdiek)
added 2 and 3-page suffix support
added order package option to set word/letter ordering (only has an effect in combination with makeglossaries script)
added Brazilian dictionary (supplied by Thiago de Melo)
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository.
Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/glossaries.html
(note that the entry will be updated overnight tonight.)
or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team