Comments on: A guide to key-value methods

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Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:40:09 +0000

[...] Aufsatzes über den derzeitigen Entwicklungsstand von LaTeX3 soll in TUGboat erscheinen. Auch die Einführung in die „Key-Value-Methode“ ist lesenswert. Mit dieser Technik, Optionen für Dokumentenklassen [...]

By: Joseph Wright

Joseph Wright — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:31:01 +0000

Glad you liked it. I’d agree that pgfkeys is in many ways a better system: I’m planning to use pgfkeys for siunitx version 2.

On the pgfopts part, this was added rather later than most of the text (which for pgfkeys was written by Christian). I’ll alter it a bit once I’ve had some comments back from TUG.

By: Ein Staunender

Ein Staunender — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:50:54 +0000

This was a amazing article to read. It gives a good overview and makes starting easier.

For me as an beginner in this toppic, the interface of the pgfkeys package looks much more cleaner to use.

Finnally, if i may make a proposal for the final article: I really liked the \xmph example, it helped a lot to see all the commands »in live action«. Would it be possible to add the pgfopts package to the example, making it as functional as the first implementation? If i understand the documentation, one has to add basically the lines:

\RequirePackage{pgfopts}
[…]
\ProcessPgfOptions{/xmph}