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@setheaderforindex

• removed spurious space in DTLaddentryforrow

• removed spurious space in DTLdisplaydb and DTLdisplaylongdb

• removed spurious space in @dtl@getsortdirection

• removed spurious space in @dtl@readline

• removed spurious space in DTLrawmap

• dtl@setcharcode and dtl@setlccharcode now check for @dtl@wordbreak instead of space and tilde

• dtl@setlccharcode bug fix (characters without a lowercase now correctly dealt with)

• dtlicompare and dtl@teststartswith now use dtl@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