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-LaTeX Bundle : datatool v2.02 (datatool.sty, datapie.sty, dataplot.sty, databar.sty, databib.sty)
-
-Last Modified : 13th July 2009
-
-Author : Nicola Talbot
-
-datatool.sty:
-
- Databases can be created using LaTeX commands or loaded
- from external ASCII files, such as comma or tab separated
- variable files.
-
- Databases can be sorted numerically or alphabetically
- (descending or ascending.)
-
- Repetitive operations can be performed on each row of
- data in a database (such as mail merging.) Conditions
- can be imposed to exclude rows.
-
- Commands are provided to determine if an argument is
- an integer, a real number, currency or a string.
- (Scientific notation is currently not supported.)
-
- Locale dependent number settings are supported
- (such as a comma as a decimal character and full stop as
- a number group character.)
-
- Commands are provided to convert between locale dependent
- numbers/currency and the standard decimal format required
- by the fp package enabling fixed point arithmetic to be
- performed on elements of the database.
-
- Strings can be tested to determine if they are all upper
- or all lower case.
-
- Names can be converted to initials using \DTLinitials.
-
-datapie.sty:
-
- A database defined by datatool.sty can be converted into a
- pie chart.
-
- Segments can be separated from the rest of the chart to make
- them stand out.
-
- Colour/grey scale options.
-
- Predefined segment colours can be changed.
-
- Hooks provided to annotate chart.
-
-dataplot.sty:
-
- A database defined by datatool.sty may be plotted as a 2D
- scatter or line plot
-
- Settings provided to govern the appearance of the chart.
- (e.g. show/hide axes, legend, grid, major/minor tick marks.)
-
- Hooks provided to add extra information to the plot
-
-databar.sty:
-
- A database defined by datatool.sty can be converted into a
- bar chart.
-
- Colour/grey scale options.
-
- Predefined bar colours can be changed.
-
- Horizontal or vertical formats provided.
-
- Hooks provided to annotate chart.
-
-databib.sty:
-
- Provides commands to convert a BibTeX database into a datatool
- database.
-
-*The datatool bundle replaces the csvtools bundle which is now obsolete.*
-
-REQUIRED PACKAGES:
-
-The datatool.sty package requires the following packages/files:
-
-xkeyval
-ifthen
-xfor
-fp
-substr
-etex
-
-The datapie.sty, dataplot.sty and databar.sty packages
-additionally require the tikz/pgf bundle.
-
-*Remember to refresh TeX's database*
-
-The package and documentation source code is also supplied as a
-dtx and ins file located in texmf/source.
-
-This material is subject to the LaTeX Project Public License.
-See http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.lppl.html for the details of that license.
-
-http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/
-
+LaTeX Bundle : datatool v2.03 (datatool.sty, datapie.sty, dataplot.sty, databar.sty, databib.sty)
+
+Last Modified : 15 November 2009
+
+Author : Nicola Talbot
+
+datatool.sty:
+
+ Databases can be created using LaTeX commands or loaded
+ from external ASCII files, such as comma or tab separated
+ variable files.
+
+ Databases can be sorted numerically or alphabetically
+ (descending or ascending.)
+
+ Repetitive operations can be performed on each row of
+ data in a database (such as mail merging.) Conditions
+ can be imposed to exclude rows.
+
+ Commands are provided to determine if an argument is
+ an integer, a real number, currency or a string.
+ (Scientific notation is currently not supported.)
+
+ Locale dependent number settings are supported
+ (such as a comma as a decimal character and full stop as
+ a number group character.)
+
+ Commands are provided to convert between locale dependent
+ numbers/currency and the standard decimal format required
+ by the fp package enabling fixed point arithmetic to be
+ performed on elements of the database.
+
+ Strings can be tested to determine if they are all upper
+ or all lower case.
+
+ Names can be converted to initials using \DTLinitials.
+
+datapie.sty:
+
+ A database defined by datatool.sty can be converted into a
+ pie chart.
+
+ Segments can be separated from the rest of the chart to make
+ them stand out.
+
+ Colour/grey scale options.
+
+ Predefined segment colours can be changed.
+
+ Hooks provided to annotate chart.
+
+dataplot.sty:
+
+ A database defined by datatool.sty may be plotted as a 2D
+ scatter or line plot
+
+ Settings provided to govern the appearance of the chart.
+ (e.g. show/hide axes, legend, grid, major/minor tick marks.)
+
+ Hooks provided to add extra information to the plot
+
+databar.sty:
+
+ A database defined by datatool.sty can be converted into a
+ bar chart.
+
+ Colour/grey scale options.
+
+ Predefined bar colours can be changed.
+
+ Horizontal or vertical formats provided.
+
+ Hooks provided to annotate chart.
+
+databib.sty:
+
+ Provides commands to convert a BibTeX database into a datatool
+ database.
+
+person.sty:
+
+ Provides commands to display a person's name and pronoun in an
+ order of service style document to provide consistency, or in mail
+ merging to eliminate the cumbersome use of ``he/she'' etc.
+
+*The datatool bundle replaces the csvtools bundle which is now obsolete.*
+
+REQUIRED PACKAGES:
+
+The datatool.sty package requires the following packages/files:
+
+xkeyval
+ifthen
+xfor
+fp
+substr
+etex
+
+The datapie.sty, dataplot.sty and databar.sty packages
+additionally require the tikz/pgf bundle.
+
+*Remember to refresh TeX's database*
+
+The package and documentation source code is also supplied as a
+dtx and ins file located in texmf/source.
+
+This material is subject to the LaTeX Project Public License.
+See http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.lppl.html for the details of that license.
+
+http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/
+