• New on CTAN: firstindexletter

    From CTAN Announcements@petra@ctan.org to ctan-ann on Wed Jun 24 10:42:30 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.text.tex

    Zsolt Bihari submitted the

    firstindexletter

    package.

    Version: 1.0
    License: lppl1.3c

    Summary description: Enlarged initials for the first entries of index letter groups

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    firstindexletter is a LaTeX package for visually emphasizing the first
    item of each index letter group by enlarging its initial letter.

    The package is intended primarily for indexes generated with xindy/texindy.
    It works at LaTeX macro level: instead of modifying the generated .ind
    file, it hooks into the index environment and formats the first entry
    of each effective letter group.

    The package provides configurable initial size, font family and color,
    simple optical kerning adjustments for selected initial-letter pairs,
    and support for Hungarian multi-character initials such as Cs, Gy, Ly,
    Ny, Sz, Ty and Zs, with configurable handling of Dz and Dzs.

    Initial CTAN release.

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    The packagerCOs Catalogue entry can be viewed at
    https://ctan.org/pkg/firstindexletter

    The packagerCOs files themselves can be inspected at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/firstindexletter/

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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Petra R|+be-Pugliese

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