New CTAN package: ltxkeys
Date: July 14, 2011 3:59:10 PM CEST
the daemon arrived too late last night to deal with this one:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: ltxkeys
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Location on CTAN:
> Summary description: A robust key parser.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> The ltxkeys package provides facilities for creating and managing keys
> in the sense of the keyval and xkeyval packages, but it is intended to
> be more robust and faster. Its robustness emanates from its ability to
> preserve braces in key values throughout parsing. The need to preserve
> braces in key values arises often in parsing keys. This is often the
> case in, eg, the xwatermark package. The package is faster than the
> xkeyval package because, among other features, it avoids
> character-wise parsing of key values (which is called selective
> sanitization by the xkeyval package).
>
> It also provides additional functionalities for defining and managing keys.
i have installed the new package, and made an entry in the catalogue
repository that describes it.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ltxkeys.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ltxkeys/
The catalogue entry will first appear on the web (some time) overnight
tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
ltxkeys – A robust key parser for LaTeX
The package provides facilities for creating and managing keys in the sense of the keyval and xkeyval packages, but it is intended to be more robust and faster. Its robustness comes from its ability to preserve braces in key values throughout parsing. The need to preserve braces in key values arises often in parsing keys (for example, in the xwatermark package). The package is faster than xkeyval package because (among other things) it avoids character-wise parsing of key values (called “selective sanitization” by the xkeyval package).
The package also provides functions for defining and managing keys.
Package | ltxkeys |
Version | 0.0.3c |
Copyright | 2011 Ahmed Musa |
Maintainer | Ahmed Musa |