the daemon, for once, comes and greets me (rather than creeping out while i'm asleep, or whatever...):
The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: catoptions Author's name: Ahmed Musa Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/catoptions Summary description: Preserving and recalling standard catcodes. License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
The 'catoptions' package changes package loading internals so that all subsequently loaded packages can rely on normal/standard catcodes of all ASCII characters. The package defines canonical control sequences to represent all the visible ASCII characters. It also provides robust options parsing mechanisms, in addition to many other TeX programming tools.
thanks for the upload. i have installed the package, and created an entry for it in the catalogue repository.
Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/catoptions.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/catoptions/
The catalogue entry will appear for the first time, at some stage overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team