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I use glossaries to typeset the list of symbols in a book I edit. Since the book is large, the list of page numbers for each entry is long, making the whole glossary occupy too much space. I wish to reduce this space by typesetting the page numbers using smaller or textsmaller.

Here is what I tried. I wrote a file called, say, q.tex, containing,

documentclass[deutsch,graybox,envcountchap]{svmono}%%% Version 5.6 from https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/resources-guidelines/rights-permissions-licensing/manuscript-preparation/5636 or https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/20566/data/v9

usepackage[paperwidth=168mm,paperheight=240mm,height=210mm,width=144mm,includeall=true]{geometry}

usepackage[T2A,T1]{fontenc}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage[latin,ngerman]{babel}

usepackage{newtxtext}

usepackage[slantedGreek]{newtxmath}

usepackage[babel=true,final=true,verbose=errors,protrusion=true,expansion=true]{microtype}

usepackage{csquotes}

usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}

%%% The next hack improves how hyperref jives with svindd.ist, see https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/429446

makeatletter

def@commahyperpage#1{@@commahyperpage#1,,,\}

def@@commahyperpage#1,,#2,#3\{%

  ifx\#2\%

    HyInd@pagelink{#1}%

  else

    HyInd@pagelink{#1},,HyInd@pagelink{#2}%

  fi

}

makeatother

usepackage[makeindex,toc,nogroupskip,nomain]{glossaries-extra}

setglossarystyle{long3col}renewcommand{glspagelistwidth}{8.62em}

renewcommand*{glsnumberformat}[1]{textsmaller[6]{#1}}

GlsSetQuote{+} %%% Hack to work with makeindex

usepackage{relsize}

usepackage[ngerman,capitalize]{cleveref}

newglossary[nlg]{notation}{not}{ntn}{Symbolverzeichnis}

makeglossaries

%%% See https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/399338/hyperref-glossaries-latex-bad-spacing-around-math-relations

glssetcategoryattribute{mathrelation}{hyperoutside}{false}

glssetcategoryattribute{mathrelation}{textformat}{mathrel}

glssetcategoryattribute{mathoperator}{hyperoutside}{false}

glssetcategoryattribute{mathoperator}{textformat}{mathop}

newglossaryentry{not:booleanValues}{type=notation, name={(mathbb{B})}, text={mathbb{B}}, sort={B}, description={Die Menge boolescher Werte.}}

newglossaryentry{not:logicalTruthValue}{type=notation, name=(mathrm{L}), text={mathrm{L}}, sort={BL}, description={Boolescher Wert glqq Wahrgrqq.}}%%% German shorthands "` and "' from babel don't work that easily with glossaries

newglossaryentry{not:logicalFalsehoodValue}{type=notation, name=(mathrm{O}), text={mathrm{O}}, sort={BO}, description={Boolescher Wert glqq Falschgrqq.}}%%% German shorthands "` and "' from babel don't work that easily with glossaries

newglossaryentry{not:partialMap}{type=notation, name={(dashrightarrow)}, category=mathrelation, text={dashrightarrow}, sort=partialMap, description={Unter (X{dashrightarrow}Y) verstehen wir die Menge partieller Funktionen von (X) nach (Y).}}

letsupopsup letsuprelax

DeclareMathOperator*{sup}{gls{not:supremum}}

newglossaryentry{not:supremum}{type=notation, name={(mathrm{sup})}, category=mathoperator, text=!supop, sort={supremum}, description={Das Supremum, die kleinste obere Schranke einer Menge in einer Halbordnung.}}

letinfopinf letinfrelax

DeclareMathOperator*{inf}{gls{not:infimum}}

newglossaryentry{not:infimum}{type=notation, name={(mathrm{inf})}, category=mathoperator, text=!infop, sort={infimum}, description={Das Infimum, die größte untere Schranke einer Menge in einer Halbordnung.}}

newglossaryentry{not:leastFixedPoint}{type=notation, name={(muup)}, category=mathoperator, text=muup, sort={mu}, description={Mit (muup,f) wird der kleinste Fixpunkt (im Falle der Existenz) der Funktion (f) bezeichnet.}}

newglossaryentry{not:endOfProof}{type=notation, name={QED}, text=QED, sort={QED0}, description={foreignlanguage{latin}{Quod erat demonstrandum}. Bezeichnet das Ende eines Beweises.}}

makeindex

begin{document}

pagenumbering{Roman}%%% change from "Roman" to "gobble" later

maketitle

frontmatter

tableofcontents

mainmatter

newcommand{testall}{(gls{not:booleanValues}) (gls{not:logicalTruthValue}) (gls{not:logicalFalsehoodValue}) (gls{not:partialMap}) (sup) (inf) (gls{not:leastFixedPoint}) gls{not:endOfProof}}

newcommand{testalld}{testallcleardoublepagetestallcleardoublepage}

newcommand{testalldd}{testalldcleardoublepagetestalldcleardoublepage}

newcommand{testallddd}{testallddcleardoublepagetestallddcleardoublepage}

newcommand{testalldddd}{testalldddcleardoublepagetestalldddcleardoublepage}

testalldddd

backmatter

glsaddallunused%

newlength{oldtabcolsep}%

setlength{oldtabcolsep}{tabcolsep}%

makeatlettersetlength{tabcolsep}{3p@}makeatother%

letoldarraystretcharraystretch%

renewcommand{arraystretch}{2}%

printglossaries%

letarraystretcholdarraystretch%

makeatletter

setlength{tabcolsep}{oldtabcolsep}%

makeatother%

end{document}

Then I ran pdflatex q && makeindex -g -s q.ist -t q.nlg -o q.not q.ntn in a loop until the output stabilized. The result was:

As you see, I could reduce the size of the digits only.

1. How to reduce the size of each page-number list as a whole (including the commans and the spaces)?




2. How to remove the vertical gap between the glossary title (here: "Symbolverzeichnis") and the first item of the glossary (here: "𝔹 Die Menge boolescher Werte ... ").