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This is a follow up question to Options in custom class. It seems that I still did not understand how global options work. Consider the following code:

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{sampleclass.cls}
    \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
    \ProvidesClass{sampleclass}

    %Providing key value syntax
    \RequirePackage{xkeyval}

    %Options
    \DeclareOption*{\PassOptionsToClass{\CurrentOption}{article}}
    \DeclareOptionX{language}{\PassOptionsToPackage{#1}{babel}}
    \ExecuteOptionsX{language=latin}

    \ProcessOptions\relax
    \ProcessOptionsX\relax

    %Parent class
    \LoadClass[
    ]{article}

    %Language support
    \RequirePackage{babel}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass[language=english]{sampleclass}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
    \blindtext
\end{document}

It prints the text in English - as it's supposed to - but gives the warning

Unused global option(s): [language=english].

If I comment out the line 

\DeclareOption*{\PassOptionsToClass{\CurrentOption}{article}}

the warning disappears. What is the correct way to use a [language=english] option for my custom class to pass the option english to babel? After some playing around I did not come to find out which parts of the above code actually lead to the warning so I will leave this not-so-minimal working example.

1 Answers1

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You need \DeclareOptionsX* instead of \DeclareOption*, in order to process the user defined option (here with xkeyval)

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{sampleclass.cls}
    \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
    \ProvidesClass{sampleclass}

    %Providing key value syntax
    \RequirePackage{xkeyval}

    %Options
    \DeclareOptionX{language}{\PassOptionsToPackage{#1}{babel}}
    \DeclareOptionX*{\PassOptionsToClass{\CurrentOption}{article}}
    \ExecuteOptionsX{language=latin}

    \ProcessOptions\relax
    \ProcessOptionsX\relax

    %Parent class


    \LoadClass{article}

    %Language support
    \RequirePackage{babel}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass[language=ngerman]{sampleclass}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
    \blindtext
\end{document}
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    I'm very fast to upvote.+1 :-) Hi, dear friend. – Sebastiano Mar 03 '18 at 11:28
  • Ah, and I guess if I want to include both xkeyvalue- and ordinary options in my document, I'll have to include both \DeclareOptionX*{\PassOptionsToClass{\CurrentOption}{article}} and \DeclareOption*{\PassOptionsToClass{\CurrentOption}{article}} ? –  Mar 03 '18 at 11:31
  • @JohnDorian: No, \DeclareOptionX* should be sufficent, if I remember correctly. –  Mar 03 '18 at 11:37