New CTAN package: datatool
Date: July 24, 2007 11:49:40 AM CEST
my ctan-upload daemon wrote (or whatever it is that daemons do):
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> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
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> Name of contribution: datatool
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/datatool
> Summary description: Tools to load and manipulate data
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> datatool.sty:
>
> Databases can be created using LaTeX commands or loaded
> from external ASCII files, such as comma or tab separated
> variable files.
>
> Databases can be sorted numerically or alphabetically
> (descending or ascending.)
>
> Repetitive operations can be performed on each row of
> data in a database (such as mail merging.) Conditions
> can be imposed to exclude rows.
>
> Commands are provided to determine if an argument is
> an integer, a real number, currency or a string.
> (Scientific notation is currently not supported.)
>
> Locale dependent number settings are supported
> (such as a comma as a decimal character and full stop as
> a number group character.)
>
> Commands are provided to convert between locale dependent
> numbers/currency and the standard decimal format required
> by the fp package enabling fixed point arithmetic to be
> performed on elements of the database.
>
> Strings can be tested to determine if they are all upper
> or all lower case.
>
> Names can be converted to initials.
>
> datapie.sty:
>
> A database defined by datatool.sty can be converted into a
> pie chart.
>
> Segments can be separated from the rest of the chart to make
> them stand out.
>
> Colour/grey scale options.
>
> Predefined segment colours can be changed.
>
> Hooks provided to annotate chart.
>
> dataplot.sty:
>
> A database defined by datatool.sty may be plotted as a 2D
> scatter or line plot
>
> Settings provided to govern the appearance of the chart.
> (e.g. show/hide axes, legend, grid, major/minor tick marks.)
>
> Hooks provided to add extra information to the plot
>
> databar.sty:
>
> A database defined by datatool.sty can be converted into a
> bar chart.
>
> Colour/grey scale options.
>
> Predefined bar colours can be changed.
>
> Horizontal or vertical formats provided.
>
> Hooks provided to annotate chart.
>
> *The datatool bundle replaces the csvtools bundle which is now obsolete.*
>
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i have installed the package as suggested, and updated the catalogue
(both the repository and the web version). thanks for the upload.
i have also moved the csvtools bundle to the obsolete/ tree.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/datatool.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/datatool
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
datatool – Tools to load and manipulate data
The tools comprise six packages:
- datatool.sty: databases may be created using LaTeX commands or by importing external files; they may be sorted numerically or alphabetically; repetitive operations (such as mail merging) may be performed on each row of a database, subject to conditions to exclude particular rows; commands are provided to examine database elements, and to convert formats (for example, to convert a numeric element to a format compatible with the fp package;
- datapie.sty: a database may be represented as a pie chart; flexible options allow colouring of the chart, and annotation hooks are available;
- dataplot.sty: a database may be represented as a 2-dimensional scatter or line plot; flexible options control of the plot's overall appearance, and of legends and other extra information;
- databar.sty: a database may be represented as a bar chart; overall appearance, colouring and annotation are controllable;
- datagidx.sty: provides a way of indexing or creating glossaries/lists of acronyms that uses TeX to do the sorting and collating instead of using an external indexing application, such as xindy or makeindex;
- databib.sty: a bibliography may be loaded into a datatool database, and manipulated there before being printed (this permits a LaTeX-based route to printing bibliographies in formats for which no BibTeX style is available); and
- person.sty: provides support for displaying a person’s name and pronoun in a document, thus avoiding cumbersome use of “he/she”, etc.
The drawing packages make use of PGF/TikZ for their output.
The bundle supersedes and replaces the author’s csvtools bundle.
| Package | datatool |
| Version | 2.32 2019-09-27 |
| Copyright | 2009, 2013–2019 Nicola Talbot |
| Maintainer | Nicola Talbot |