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I need to generate a glossary in LaTeX.  I remember seeing
something called GloTeX. I found such a beast on ymir.claremont.edu,
but after reading AAAREADME*, I found that it's written in VAX C.
Cautions were given about non-portability.  

1.  Do I really need glotex?  The LaTeX book is fairly vague on
    the topic of glossaries.  This is probably a one-time need for
    a glossary, and I'm a programmer type (C, awk, sed), so...
    can I get by without it?  

2.  Do I give the word's meaning as an argument, or do I go back and 
    edit the .glo file?   What's the procedure here?

3.  What does this mean?
    %  SURPRISE: \index, \glossary,  and \label are no-ops inside an
    %  \addcontentsline or \addtocontents command argument.  This could cause a
    %  problem if the user puts an \index or \label into one of the commands he
    %  writes, or into the optional 'short version' argument of a \section or
    %  \caption command.

4.  If I need glotex, where can I find it for a BSDish environment
    (SunOS)?

Thanks,
-- 
James Darrell McCauley, Grad Res Asst, Spatial Analysis Lab 
Dept of Ag Engr, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX 77843-2117, USA
(jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu, jdm5548@tamagen.bitnet)