CTAN package update: datatool
Date: August 20, 2007 3:56:31 PM CEST
quoth the cambridge upload daemon:
> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20070819-133344/
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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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> Added databib package: provides commands to convert a BibTeX database
> into a datatool database
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> datatool.sty v1.01 :
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> * Fixed bug in datatool caused when certain commands occur
> in database entries or when the data type is tested.
> * Fixed bug in \DTLsubstituteall (caused problems when certain
> * commands occurred in string)
> * Added \DTLsplitstring
> * Added \DTLifSubString and \DTLisSubString
> * Added \DTLifStartsWith and \DTLisPrefix
> * Added case insensitive string tests
> * \DTLinitials and \DTLstoreinitials now work with ~ and \space
> * \DTLinitials and \DTLstoreinitials now use \DTLinitialhyphen
> * Added \dtlcompare (no longer using compare.tex)
> * Added \DTLgetvalueforkey
> * Added \DTLgetrowforkey
> * Added optional argument to \DTLsort
> * Fixed bug causing expansion in \DTLsort
> * Fixed bug in \DTLsdforall and \DTLvarianceforall
> * Removed extraneous spaces in \DTLaddall, \DTLminall,
> \DTLmaxall, \DTLmeanforall, \DTLsdforall and \DTLvarianceforall
> * Fixed bug in \DTLiflastrow
> * Fixed bug in \DTLremovecurrentrow
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i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue (this was all
done yesterday, so should have propagated rather widely by now). 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
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
datatool – Tools to load and manipulate data
The tools comprise the packages:
- datatool-base.sty: the underlying base package used by all the other packages in this bundle;
- 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 l3fp or 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 abbreviations that uses TeX to do the sorting and collating instead of using an external indexing application, such as xindy or makeindex (although you may prefer \printnoidxglossary now provided by the glossaries package);
- 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, although biblatex is now the better route); 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.
Localisation support needs to be installed separately. See datatool-regions and datatool-english.
The bundle supersedes and replaces the author’s csvtools bundle.
| Package | datatool |
| Version | 3.4.1 2025-04-25 |
| Copyright | 2007–2025 Nicola Talbot |
| Maintainer | Nicola Talbot |