This author finds that the second (the change record) is generally of limited utility when reading package documentation; it is, however, valuable if you’re part of the package development team. If you don’t feel you need it, just leave out that step Another common (and reasonable) trick performed by package authors is to provide a separate file package-doc.tex or even simply manual.tex; if the file package.dtx doesn’t help, simply look around for such alternatives. The files are treated in the same way as any “ordinary” LaTeX file.makeindex -s gind package makeindex -s gglo -o package.gls package.glo
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