data­tool – 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.