README for the `catcodes' bundle
    (C) Uwe Lueck 2012/09/20

The `catcodes' bundle deals with category code switching. The contained packages should work with LaTeX as well as without (based on the `plainpkg' package). The important cases of category codes are (a) "private letters" for internal package commands and (b) active characters. stacklet.sty' deals with (a), actcodes.sty' with (b). There also is (c) `catchdq.sty', an application of (b), for automatic insertion of typographical double quotes when the user only enters ASCII double quotes. What is "typographical" differs between languages, the new `langcode' package completes `catchdq''s functionality in this respect.

The documentation for the three package files is contained in the file `catcodes.pdf'.

REQUIRED PACKAGES: plainpkg, stacklet

RELATED PACKAGES: catoptions, pcatcode (amsrefs), texapi, csquotes

KEYWORDs: macro programming, category codes, private letters,

active characters, double quotes

The package files actcodes.sty', catchdq.sty', and `stacklet.sty', together with the documentation files catcodes.pdf' and catcodes.tex', can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License; either version 1.3c of the License, or any later version, see

http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt

There is NO WARRANTY, actually all of this still is a little experimental.

The `catcodes' bundle is author-maintained in the sense of the license.

The latest public version of the bundle is available at

http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/catcodes/

A TDS version of the package is available as

http://mirror.ctan.org/install/macros/generic/catcodes.tds.zip

Please report bugs, problems, and suggestions via

http://www.contact-ednotes.sty.de.vu