CTAN has a new package: pgfopts
Date: June 26, 2008 8:37:52 AM CEST
This package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your
favorite mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pgfopts
Author's name: Joseph Wright
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pgfopts
Summary description: LaTeX package options with pgfkeys
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
Using key-value options for packages and macros is a good way of handling large numbers of options with a clean interface. The pgfkeys package provides a very well designed system for defining and using keys, but does not make this available for handling LaTeX class and package options. The pgfopts package adds this ability to pgfkeys, in the same way that kvoptions extends the keyval package.
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pgfopts . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pgfopts (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Using key-value options for packages and macros is a good way of handling large numbers of options with a clean interface. The pgfkeys package provides a very well designed system for defining and using keys, but does not make this available for handling LaTeX class and package options. The pgfopts package adds this ability to pgfkeys, in the same way that kvoptions extends the keyval package.
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pgfopts . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pgfopts (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
pgfopts – LaTeX package options with pgfkeys
The pgfkeys package (part of the pgf distribution) is a well-designed way of defining and using large numbers of keys for key-value syntaxes. However, pgfkeys itself does not offer means of handling LaTeX class and package options. This package adds such option handling to pgfkeys, in the same way that kvoptions adds the same facility to the LaTeX standard keyval package.
| Package | pgfopts |
| Version | 2.1a |
| Copyright | 2008 Joseph Wright |
| Maintainer | Joseph Wright |