CTAN Update: datatool
Date: February 4, 2014 8:15:15 PM CET
Nicola Talbot submitted an update to the
datatool
package.
Version number: 2.20
License type: lppl
Summary description: Tools to load and manipulate data
Announcement text:
New commands: - \DTLloaddbtex - \DTLifnullorempty - \DTLassignfirstmatch - \xDTLassignfirstmatch Minor bug fixes.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/datatool/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/datatool (due to a known bug in our software this page shows a slightly outdated view of our Catalogue data) This older, but more reliable view shows the correct data: http://texcatalogue.ctan.org/entries/datatool.html We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
New commands: - \DTLloaddbtex - \DTLifnullorempty - \DTLassignfirstmatch - \xDTLassignfirstmatch Minor bug fixes.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/datatool/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/datatool (due to a known bug in our software this page shows a slightly outdated view of our Catalogue data) This older, but more reliable view shows the correct data: http://texcatalogue.ctan.org/entries/datatool.html We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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 |