CTAN update: datatool

Date: March 27, 2009 9:24:19 AM CET

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should with in a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: 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 Announcement text:

v2.01: * fixed bug that ignores descending sort option

This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/datatool . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/datatool (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

datatool – Tools to load and manipulate data

The tools comprise 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;
datagidx.sty: provides a way of indexing or creating glossaries/lists of acronyms that uses TeX to do the sorting and collating instead of using an external indexing application, such as xindy or makeindex;
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 supersedes and replaces the author’s csvtools bundle.

Package	datatool
Version	2.32 2019-09-27
Copyright	2009, 2013–2019 Nicola Talbot
Maintainer	Nicola Talbot

CTAN update: datatool

datatool – Tools to load and manipulate data

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