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The glossaries package supports acronyms and multiple glossaries, and
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has provision for operation in several languages (using the facilities
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of either babel or polyglossia). New entries are defined to have a name
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and description (and optionally an associated symbol). Support for
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multiple languages is offered, and plural forms of terms may be
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specified. An additional package, glossaries-accsupp, can make use of
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the accsupp package mechanisms for accessibility support for PDF files
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containing glossaries. The user may define new glossary styles, and
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preambles and postambles can be specified. There is provision for
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loading a database of terms, but only terms used in the text will be
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added to the relevant glossary. The package uses an indexing program to
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provide the actual glossary; either makeindex or xindy may serve this
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purpose, and a Perl script is provided to serve as interface. The
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package distribution also provides the mfirstuc package, for changing
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the first letter of a word to upper case. The package supersedes the
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author's glossary package (which is now obsolete), and a conversion tool
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is provided.
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