New package on CTAN: catoptions

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