just as i was relaxing before a strenuous afternoon's sleep, the daemon popped up its head and cried:

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: datatool Author's name: Nicola Talbot 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:

v2.03:

• Added facility to clear or delete a database.

• Fixed bug in DTLsavedb that prints duplicate information to file.

• DTLreplaceentryforrow expands the replacement value

• DTLappendtorow expands the new value

• DTLnewdbentry : user can choose between expanding or not expanding value before adding to database.

• Renamed dtl@columnindex to dtlcolumnindex so that it can be used in the document.

• Spaces may now occur after commas (but not before) in the assignment part of DTLforeach

• Fixed missing backslashes in example in manual (pounds->pounds)

• Fixed type in datapie documentation: non-colour option is gray not monochrome.

• Added package person.sty

thanks for that; i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue entry (noting the new package).

Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/datatool.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/datatool

as always, the catalogue entry will change overnight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team