This is the README file for the ltxkeys package. SUMMARY 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 emerges 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. In the ltxkeys package, the notion of 'presetting' keys differs from that of the xkeyval package. Only 'launched keys' are preset in the ltxkeys package. AUTHOR Ahmed Musa (amusa22@gmail.com) RELATED PACKAGES xkeyval.sty LICENSE Copyright (c) 2011 Ahmed Musa. This software is author-maintained. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this software under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3 or higher. This software is provided 'as it is', without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose. VERSION Version 0.1.0, July 2011