CTAN update: datatool
Date: July 13, 2009 1:39:55 PM CEST
simultaneously, i splutter over my lunch, and the upload daemon also
splutters:
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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
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> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> v2.02:
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> * fixed bug caused by undefined \@dtlifhaskey (should be
> \@DTLifhaskey)
> * fixed bug caused by undefined \dtl at getcolumnindex (should
> be \@dtl at getcolumnindex)
> * fixed bug in \DTLsavedb that ignores the file name
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i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue entry (a bit).
thanks for the upload.
> 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
the truly alert will observe a change to the catalogue entry after
tonight's update run.
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 |