CTAN package update: datatool
Date: July 23, 2012 12:57:45 PM CEST
the daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: datatool
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Package version: 2.10
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.10 (2012/07/18):
>
> * datatool.sty:
>
> - Split package into datatool-base.sty, datatool-fp.sty and
> datatool-pgfmath.sty
>
> - Added package option "math" (math=fp -> use fp.sty,
> math=pgfmath -> use pgfmath.sty)
>
> - datatool.sty now requires etoolbox (changed commands like
> \@ifundefined to etoolbox equivalents)
>
> - Added 'omitlines' option when loading csv file (from patch
> supplied by Bruno Le Floch
> at:
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/22942/skipping-the-first-line-of-a-data-file-for-pgfplotstable/25133#25133 )
>
> - \DTLloaddb : adds default column header if missing
>
> - Added optional argument to \DTLdisplaydb
>
> - Added omit key to \DTLdisplaylongdb
>
> - added environment dtlenvgforint
>
> - added environments DTLenvforeach and DTLenvforeach*
>
> - added check for at least version 1.2 (2009/10/20) of substr.sty
>
> - added \DTLassign
>
> - added DTLnumitemsinlist
>
> - added \dtlrecombine, \dtlrecombineomitcurrent,
> \dtlreplaceentryincurrentrow, \dtlswapentriesincurrentrow,
> \dtlremoveentryincurrentrow, \dtlappendentrytocurrentrow
>
> - Rewritten \@dtl at ifDigitOrDecimalSep (code provided by Bruno Le Floch)
>
> - ensured first argument of \DTLconverttodecimal gets one-level
> expansion in commands like \DTLaddall
>
> - Fixed \DTLloaddb to work if % used at the start of a row in CSV file.
>
> - Fixed \@dtl at qlopoff to substitute escaped CSV delimiters
>
> - Fixed bug in \DTLloadrawdb, which only performed a single
> substitution per line
>
> - Added \long before \edef in \DTLsubstituteall
>
> - Fixed bug in \@dtl at getkeyforcolumn (affects
> \DTLgetkeyforcolumn)
>
> - Changed tab character to ^^I
>
> - Fixed bug in \DTLloaddb and \DTLloadrawdb when CSV file only
> contains one column
>
> * databib.bst:
>
> - Added eprints field
>
> * datatool-user.tex (User guide):
>
> - fixed typo "\value{DTLbibrow}<11" => "\value{DTLbibrow}<10"
>
> - added section "Operating on Current Row"
>
> - added remark on using etoolbox to check for empty values
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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/
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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 |