Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:39:17 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8MIdCQp009755 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:39:13 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m8MIWUlW018614 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:32:30 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m8MFSsCK015925; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:31:46 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 41475 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:31:46 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m8MFSsCE015925 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:31:46 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de id m8MIVkws018608 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:31:46 +0200 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Joseph Wright Subject: Re: Key management for LaTeX3 ("l3keys") To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -2.599 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 213.139.130.197 Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Sep 2008 18:39:17.0895 (UTC) FILETIME=[85280970:01C91CE2] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5385 I said: >My impression of the template system is that it is about designing >relatively fixed user macros on a flexible base. So most of the keys >are set inside the package, and are not exposed to the user. Perhaps better to say that template provides good ways to create sets of keys which go together (which would be "styles" in pgfkeys or are currently implemented using the .keys:n property in l3keys). However, I think the point that the user does not see the keys themselves stands. Joseph