ctan-ann - keyreader

CTAN package reinstated: keyreader

2011-12-22T11:50:47Z

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

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CTAN update: keyreader

2011-12-24T12:18:01Z

as i was out doing last-minute shopping, the daemon popped up to say:

> Name of contribution: keyreader
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Package version: 0.4a
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/keyreader/
> Summary description: Robust and compact interface to the xkeyval package.
> License type: lppl
> 
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Bug fix. Not really a bug, but a matter of wrong logic or concept.

thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.


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CTAN update: keyreader

2012-10-12T10:46:39Z

the daemon tells me:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: keyreader
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Package version: 0.5
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contib/
> Summary description: Robust interfaces to xkeyval package.
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Following request, when using \krddefinekeys, users can now supply the
> "second callback" (which is called when the user input is not in the
> list of admissible values of the key) for boolean and choice
> keys. Previously the second callback was hardwired as \krd at keyvalerr.

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CTAN update: keyreader

2012-11-09T15:35:16Z

the daemon told me:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: keyreader
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Package version: 0.5b
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/keyreader/
> Summary description: Robust interfaces to xkeyval package.
> License type: lppl
> 
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Choice keys can't have outer-braced default or user-supplied
> values. Outer-braced values may not have been given in the state
> pattern. Hence the outer braces are removed automatically internally

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