CTAN update: datatool

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Wed Jan 16 17:53:06 CET 2013


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



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