CTAN update: datatool
Date: January 16, 2013 4:53:06 PM CET
the daemon wrote:
> Name of contribution: datatool
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Package version: 2.13
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> * Added new package `datagidx'
>
> - create glossaries/indexes /without/ using an external tool such
> as makeindex or xindy
>
> * datatool.sty
>
> - added \dtlsort (like \DTLsort but user supplies custom
> comparison handler).
>
> - added \DTLgnewdb, \DTLgdeletedb, \DTLgcleardb
>
> - added \DTLsaverawdb
>
> - added \ifDTLnewdbonload, \DTLnewdbonloadtrue,
> \DTLnewdbonloadfalse
>
> - added \dtlparsewords
>
> - fixed bug in \@DTLnewrow (misspelt \PackageError command)
>
> - removed spurious space in \@dtl at setheaderforindex
>
> - removed spurious space in \DTLaddentryforrow
>
> - removed spurious space in \DTLdisplaydb and \DTLdisplaylongdb
>
> - removed spurious space in \@dtl at getsortdirection
>
> - removed spurious space in \@dtl at readline
>
> - removed spurious space in \DTLrawmap
>
> - \dtl at setcharcode and \dtl at setlccharcode now check
> for \@dtl at wordbreak instead of space and tilde
>
> - \dtl at setlccharcode bug fix (characters without a lowercase
> now correctly dealt with)
>
> - \dtlicompare and \dtl at teststartswith now use
> \dtl at setwordbreaksnohyphens to deal with spaces
>
> - added \@dtlstringnull and \@dtlnumbernull and fixed bug in
> \DTLifnull
>
> - renamed datatool.pdf to datatool-code.pdf
>
> * datatool-base.sty
>
> - added \dtlwordindexcompare
thanks for the upload; i installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/datatool.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/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 |