CTAN package reinstated: keyreader

the daemon wrote, yesterday: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: keyreader > Author's name: Ahmed Musa > Author's email: amusa at gmail.com > Package version: 0.4 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/keyreader/ > Summary description: A robust interface to the xkeyval package. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1. Some of the features of the package have been moved to the ltxkeys > package, where more robustness can be found. But the keyreader package > continues to be used by some TeXnicians, long after I abandoned it. I > don't know how TeXLive kept it on long after it disappeared from > CTAN. Now it is officially back anew. > > 2. I used it as a testing platform for the ltxkeys package because the > xkeyval package, for all its shortcomings, has been stable and widely > used for years. Even now I send the keyreader package to users of > ltxkeys package to benchmark problems with the ltxkeys package. So it > is right that it returns to CTAN. > > 3. New interfaces for defining and setting keys have been introduced. > > 4. The alternate/admissible values of choice keys can now have > individual callbacks. Incidentally, the implementation of this feature > in the keyreader package is more optimized than that of the ltxkeys > package. In the future there will be a need to return to the ltxkeys > package on this matter. > > 5. The selective sanitization procedure of the xkeyval package has > been replaced by the new list normalization scheme of the keyreader > package. The relevant macros of the xkeyval package have been hacked. > > 6. For some users of xkeyval's \define at key command, the fact that a > space between the key name and its callback/function can cause > problems in key definition has been annoying. But this isn't the fault > of the xkeyval package. Well, the keyreader package has addressed this > concern: the space causes no more headache. > > 7. Still, as in the xkeyval package, it isn't possible to pass > unbalanced conditionals as key values in the keyreader > package. ltxkeys to the rescue. thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/keyreader.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/keyreader/ The catalogue entry (at the address above) will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. (For some reason it remained when the previous package was removed from the archive -- at other sites, the web entry will no doubt reappear overnight.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team