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:
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