The keyvaltable Package

Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Richard Grewe

Released under the LaTeX Project Public License version 1.3c or later

Purpose

The main goal of the keyvaltable package is to offer means for typesetting tables easily and yet still looking rather nicely in a way that separates content from presentation and with re-usable layout for tables of the same type. For this purpose, the package provides the environment KeyValTable, which allows one to typeset tables that have a previously defined column layout and whose rows can be produced in a key-value fashion.

Availability

The keyvaltable package is on CTAN, where you can also find the documentation, as well as on github. Since March 2016, keyvaltable is part of TeX Live (package texlive-latex-extra) and is included in MiKTeX.

Manual Installation

The keyvaltable package comes with (at least) the following files

• keyvaltable.ins
• keyvaltable.dtx
• README.md

and possibly also with

• Makefile
• keyvaltable.pdf (generated from keyvaltable.dtx)
• keyvaltable.sty (generated from keyvaltable.dtx)

To install the keyvaltable package, you additionally need

• docstrip.tex

To build the package (keyvaltable.sty), run one of the following

    latex keyvaltable.ins
    make package (needs Makefile)

Put the resulting keyvaltable.sty somewhere where LaTeX can find it. Read the documentation of your LaTeX system to find out where this might be.

Building Documentation

To build the documentation of the keyvaltable package, you additionally need the following classes and packages (including their dependencies)

• rgltxdoc
• etoc
• amssymb, gensymb, fontawesome
• xspace
• xintexpr
• makecell, cellspace
• tabularx, longtable, xltabular, tabu
• filecontents
• datatool, csvsimple

as well as

• pdflatex

To build the documentation (keyvaltable.pdf), either run

    make docs

or the following sequence of commands

    pdflatex keyvaltable.dtx
    makeindex -s gind.ist -o keyvaltable.ind keyvaltable.idx
    makeindex -s gglo.ist -o keyvaltable.gls keyvaltable.glo
    pdflatex keyvaltable.dtx
    pdflatex keyvaltable.dtx

Happy TeX'ing