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Suggest keywords and characterizations for datatool

I am glad to receive suggested keywords and characterizations for this package. I am especially glad if you are the package author but I'd take helpful advice from anyone (I reserve the right to edit or disregard anything).

Note: this form is for changes to the keywords and characterizations for this package, and anything else is invalid. Other information about the package — such as its description — I am not allowed to change; you must write ctan at dante.de. (I have a separate form for author display name and collate name because those may apply across multiple packages.)

Fill out the fields below and then move to the bottom of the page to click Submit.

Basic package information

This information may be handy in filling out the keywords and characterizations fields below.

Tools to load and manipulate data.

The bundle provides 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; 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 replaces and supersedes the author’s csvtools bundle.

Author: Nicola Talbot

About you

The name and email fields are in color because they are required so that I can write you with any questions. You can make a remark about the suggested change (particularly if you are not the author) but it must be plain text or the system will silently drop your submission as spam.

Your name

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Remarks

Choose a list of keywords

Click to leave a checkmark next to all the keywords that apply. To omit a keyword, click again.

Choose a primary characterization

Pick the best description of the main job that this package does. Use the finest-grained characterization that applies. For instance, if the package is a publisher style that applies to books then select Document types > Books > Publisher styles, not Document types > Books or Document types.

Choose secondary characterizations

Many package cross categories. Pick the best description of the other jobs that this package does.

As with the primary characterization, use here the finest-grained characterization that applies. For instance, Fonts > Text body fonts, would help more people find a package than Fonts alone, because a category like the latter one would fill up quickly if we don't go for fine-grained.

This information is maintained by me only and is not allowed in the TeX Catalogue.

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