On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Hendri Adriaens uploaded uploaded xkeyval 1.7 and pst-xkey 1.2 to CTAN.

They have been installed in the directory

macros/generic/xkeyval

Thanks for the update.

Announcement text: --------------------------------------------- Don't forget to read the README on installing xkeyval in a (La)TeX distribution.

Information about the updated xkeyval: 1) Added disable@key 2) Added define@cmdkey (command keys) 3) Changed xkvltxp.tex to xkvltxp.sty 4) Namechange: XKV@ifku to key@ifundefined 5) Simplified both the value saving and the pointer mechanism 6) Improved coding at several places 7) Package now uses eTeX if available 8) Removed optional existence checking from define@key and friends 9) presetkeys: made incremental 10) XKV@makepf: protects internal macros. 11) Introduced optional global saving of macros produced by savekeys and presetkeys. 12) Added notation to savekeys and savevalue to instruct xkeyval to save values globally.

Information about the updated pst-xkey: 1) Updated docs and code to match xkeyval 1.7 ---------------------------------------------

For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf