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