Crthuky

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
usepackagenewtxtext
usepackage[slantedGreek]newtxmath
usepackage[babel=true,final=true,verbose=errors,protrusion=true,expansion=true]microtype
usepackagecsquotes
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
setglossarystylelong3colrenewcommandglspagelistwidth8.62em
renewcommand*glsnumberformat[1]textsmaller[6]#1
GlsSetQuote+ %%% Hack to work with makeindex
usepackagerelsize
usepackage[ngerman,capitalize]cleveref
newglossary[nlg]notationnotntnSymbolverzeichnis
makeglossaries
%%% See https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/399338/hyperref-glossaries-latex-bad-spacing-around-math-relations
glssetcategoryattributemathrelationhyperoutsidefalse
glssetcategoryattributemathrelationtextformatmathrel
glssetcategoryattributemathoperatorhyperoutsidefalse
glssetcategoryattributemathoperatortextformatmathop
newglossaryentrynot:booleanValuestype=notation, name=(mathbbB), text=mathbbB, sort=B, description=Die Menge boolescher Werte.
newglossaryentrynot:logicalTruthValuetype=notation, name=(mathrmL), text=mathrmL, sort=BL, description=Boolescher Wert glqq Wahrgrqq.%%% German shorthands "` and "' from babel don't work that easily with glossaries
newglossaryentrynot:logicalFalsehoodValuetype=notation, name=(mathrmO), text=mathrmO, sort=BO, description=Boolescher Wert glqq Falschgrqq.%%% German shorthands "` and "' from babel don't work that easily with glossaries
newglossaryentrynot:partialMaptype=notation, name=(dashrightarrow), category=mathrelation, text=dashrightarrow, sort=partialMap, description=Unter (XdashrightarrowY) verstehen wir die Menge partieller Funktionen von (X) nach (Y).
letsupopsup letsuprelax
DeclareMathOperator*supglsnot:supremum
newglossaryentrynot:supremumtype=notation, name=(mathrmsup), category=mathoperator, text=!supop, sort=supremum, description=Das Supremum, die kleinste obere Schranke einer Menge in einer Halbordnung.
letinfopinf letinfrelax
DeclareMathOperator*infglsnot:infimum
newglossaryentrynot:infimumtype=notation, name=(mathrminf), category=mathoperator, text=!infop, sort=infimum, description=Das Infimum, die größte untere Schranke einer Menge in einer Halbordnung.
newglossaryentrynot:leastFixedPointtype=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.
newglossaryentrynot:endOfProoftype=notation, name=QED, text=QED, sort=QED0, description=foreignlanguagelatinQuod erat demonstrandum. Bezeichnet das Ende eines Beweises.
makeindex
begindocument
pagenumberingRoman%%% change from "Roman" to "gobble" later
maketitle
frontmatter
tableofcontents
mainmatter
newcommandtestall(glsnot:booleanValues) (glsnot:logicalTruthValue) (glsnot:logicalFalsehoodValue) (glsnot:partialMap) (sup) (inf) (glsnot:leastFixedPoint) glsnot:endOfProof
newcommandtestalldtestallcleardoublepagetestallcleardoublepage
newcommandtestallddtestalldcleardoublepagetestalldcleardoublepage
newcommandtestalldddtestallddcleardoublepagetestallddcleardoublepage
newcommandtestallddddtestalldddcleardoublepagetestalldddcleardoublepage
testalldddd
backmatter
glsaddallunused%
newlengtholdtabcolsep%
setlengtholdtabcolseptabcolsep%
makeatlettersetlengthtabcolsep3p@makeatother%
letoldarraystretcharraystretch%
renewcommandarraystretch2%
printglossaries%
letarraystretcholdarraystretch%
makeatletter
setlengthtabcolsepoldtabcolsep%
makeatother%
enddocument

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 ... ").