Map multiple different key-value pairs to the same behaviour

Question

I've been typesetting a competition paper using the exam class, which has options for nice headers and cover pages.

Now, this competition has two different age categories, 'Junior' and 'Senior', and three different rounds: 'MCQ', 'Team', and 'Observation'. I'd like the title page and the headers to all reflect any one of the six resulting combinations by specifying options to a command, in the manner of key-value pairs. For instance, \setcatround[category=jnr, round=mcq] should set these variables appropriately, and these should be reflected in both the header and the title/cover page of the exam.

I have selected pgfkeys as my key-value package of choice. I passed over keyval, xkeyval, and kvoptions, because I find their syntax to be particularly esoteric compared to the relative straightforwardness of pgfkeys. Furthermore, Mr Wright (of siunitx fame) recommends pgfkeys or l3keys versus the others, here.

An M(N)WE [minimum (not) working example]:

\documentclass{exam}
\usepackage{pgfkeys} 

\pgfkeys{
    /ac/.is family, /ac,
    category/.estore in = \category,
    round/.estore in = \round
}

\newcommand*{\setcatround}[1]{\pgfqkeys{/ac}{#1}}

\setcatround{category=senior, round=mcq}

\header{My Exam}{}{\category{} \round{} Round}

\title{Competition}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\centering
\LARGE{\category{} \round{} Round}
\thispagestyle{headandfoot}
\end{document}

Now, this MWE works okay, but my idea was to:

1. Print the competition Category And Round In Title Case, like so: Junior MCQ Round, or Senior Team Round;

2. Print the category and round together using only one command; for instance, \catround{} should yield Junior MCQ Round when the appropriate options are set with \setcatround{...};

3. Allow users to specify either of jnr/junior, or snr/senior and output the appropriate results.

How might I go about specifying these, and possibly make it easily extensible for any future additions?

Answer 1

With the help of .is choice key handler, which is documented in PGF Manual, sec. 88.4.5:

\documentclass{exam}
\usepackage{pgfkeys} 

\pgfkeys{
  /ac/.cd,
  category/.is choice,
  category/jun/.code={\edef\category{Junior}},
  category/snr/.code={\edef\category{Senior}},
  % you can define similar choice-keys for "round"
  round/.estore in = \round
}

\newcommand*{\setcatround}[1]{\pgfqkeys{/ac}{#1}}

\setcatround{category=snr, round=mcq}

\header{My Exam}{}{\category{} \round{} Round}

\title{Competition}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\centering
\LARGE{\category{} \round{} Round}
\thispagestyle{headandfoot}
\end{document}