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ID	308🔗
Date:	2025-07-04 10:57:37
Last update:	2025-07-06 14:45:26
Status	Closed (Not a Bug)
Category	glossaries
Version	4.7
Summary	Sytle super broken

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Description

After a package update the glossaries option: style=super breaks in combination with other packages. Latex shows errors in the generated *.acr file. This might be table related, e.g. removing the tabularx and colortbl packages fixes the problem.

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tabularx} 
%\usepackage{colortbl}

\usepackage[acronym, nomain]{glossaries} 
\makeglossaries

\newacronym{err}{Error}{Error Test}
\newacronym{erl}{longError}{Long Error Test}

\begin{document}

\printglossary[type=\acronymtype, style=super]

\section{Section}
\gls{err}
\gls{erl}
	
\end{document}

Evaluation

Expanding out all the glossary commands, the \printglossary command from your example is essentially:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tabularx}
%\usepackage{colortbl}

\usepackage{supertabular}

\newlength\glsdescwidth
\setlength{\glsdescwidth}{0.6\hsize}

\begin{document}
\section{Acronyms}

\tablehead{}\tabletail{}%
\begin{supertabular}{lp{\glsdescwidth}}
Error & Error Test. 1\tabularnewline
longError & Long Error Test. 1\tabularnewline
\end{supertabular}

\end{document}

Which produces the same error message:

! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup.
\@endpbox ...finalstrut \@arstrutbox \par \egroup 
                                                  \ST@dimen =\ht \ST@pbox \a...

Therefore this is a problem with an incompatibility with the tabularx and supertabular packages and is outside of the control of the glossaries package. Therefore I will have to close it as not a bug (in glossaries).

I recommend you use the long style instead.

Comments

3 comments.

🔗Comment from Denis
Date: 2025-07-04 16:19:03

Thanks, the author of the array package suspects that an update to array broke the compatibility to supertabular.

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🔗Comment from Nicola Talbot 🦜
Date: 2025-07-04 16:26:08
Repying to: Denis 2025-07-04 16:19:03

Thank you for your feedback.

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🔗Comment from Crepsley
Date: 2025-07-06 13:31:35

Hello together,

I had also exactly that problem after the latest update (today: 6th Jul 2025). At least I'm now able to compile my document again. Thank you a lot for your observations and insights. That really helped me out! 🙏

Best regards,
Crepsley

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