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ID	202🔗
Date:	2022-05-02 16:58:26
Last update:	2022-05-02 17:44:23
Status	Open Sign in if you want to bump this report.
Category	datatool
Version	2.32
Summary	\dtldisplaystarttab is broken with \DTLdisplaylongdb

Description

datatool 2.32 2019-09-27

\dtldisplaystarttab is broken with \DTLdisplaylongdb

With \DTLdisplaylongdb redefining \dtldisplaystarttab to deliver \hline so that each table-head has a horizontal line above it leads to an error-message about ! Misplaced \noalign:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{datatool,longtable}

%===============================================================
\DTLnewdb{MyDataBase}%
\DTLaddcolumn{MyDataBase}{columnA}%
\DTLsetheader{MyDataBase}{columnA}{First Column}%
\DTLaddcolumn{MyDataBase}{columnB}%
\DTLsetheader{MyDataBase}{columnB}{Second Column}%
%---------------------------------------------------------------
\DTLnewrow{MyDataBase}
\DTLnewdbentry{MyDataBase}{columnA}{Row 1 Col A}
\DTLnewdbentry{MyDataBase}{columnB}{Row 1 Col B}
%---------------------------------------------------------------
\DTLnewrow{MyDataBase}
\DTLnewdbentry{MyDataBase}{columnA}{Row 2 Col A}
\DTLnewdbentry{MyDataBase}{columnB}{Row 2 Col B}
%===============================================================

\begin{document}

\begingroup
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%This doesn't work out but yields  ! Misplaced \noalign.
\renewcommand{\dtldisplaystarttab}{\hline}%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\renewcommand\dtldisplayafterhead{\hline}%
\renewcommand\dtldisplaystartrow{\hline}%
\renewcommand{\dtldisplayendtab}{\tabularnewline\hline}%
\renewcommand{\dtlbeforecols}{|}%
\renewcommand{\dtlaftercols}{|}%
\renewcommand{\dtlbetweencols}{|}%
\renewcommand\dtlheaderformat[1]{\textbf{#1}\hfil\null}%
\DTLdisplaylongdb{MyDataBase}
\endgroup

\end{document}

Ulrike Fischer delved into the code of datatool and found that this might be a bug:

For \DTLdisplaydb the code does \dtldisplaystarttab\@dtl@resetdoamp, but for \DTLdisplaylongdb the order is exchanged \@dtl@resetdoamp\dtldisplaystarttab and the first command starts the column before \hline coming from \dtldisplaystarttab is carried out.

If the code of the datatool-package is patched accordingly, everything seems to work out:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{datatool,longtable,etoolbox}

\makeatletter
\expandafter\patchcmd\expandafter{\csname\string\DTLdisplaylongdb\endcsname}%
         {\@dtl@resetdoamp\dtldisplaystarttab}%
         {\dtldisplaystarttab\@dtl@resetdoamp}%
         {\message{Patching succeeded.}}%
         {\message{Patching failed.}}%
\makeatother

%===============================================================
\DTLnewdb{MyDataBase}%
\DTLaddcolumn{MyDataBase}{columnA}%
\DTLsetheader{MyDataBase}{columnA}{First Column}%
\DTLaddcolumn{MyDataBase}{columnB}%
\DTLsetheader{MyDataBase}{columnB}{Second Column}%
%---------------------------------------------------------------
\DTLnewrow{MyDataBase}
\DTLnewdbentry{MyDataBase}{columnA}{Row 1 Col A}
\DTLnewdbentry{MyDataBase}{columnB}{Row 1 Col B}
%---------------------------------------------------------------
\DTLnewrow{MyDataBase}
\DTLnewdbentry{MyDataBase}{columnA}{Row 2 Col A}
\DTLnewdbentry{MyDataBase}{columnB}{Row 2 Col B}
%===============================================================

\begin{document}

\begingroup
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%This does work out after patching:
\renewcommand{\dtldisplaystarttab}{\hline}%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\renewcommand\dtldisplayafterhead{\hline}%
\renewcommand\dtldisplaystartrow{\hline}%
\renewcommand{\dtldisplayendtab}{\tabularnewline\hline}%
\renewcommand{\dtlbeforecols}{|}%
\renewcommand{\dtlaftercols}{|}%
\renewcommand{\dtlbetweencols}{|}%
\renewcommand\dtlheaderformat[1]{\textbf{#1}\hfil\null}%
\DTLdisplaylongdb{MyDataBase}
\endgroup

\end{document}

This problem was also discussed at TeX-LaTeX StackExchange,
Subject: "When displaying a datatool-database with \DTLdisplaylongdb - how to obtain a horizontal rule atop of the table-heads?",
URL: <[TeX.SX Link]>.

Sincerely

Ulrich Diez

MWE

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{datatool,longtable,etoolbox}

% Toggle \iffalse/\iftrue to see behavior if patch is/is not in effect:

\iffalse
%\iftrue
\makeatletter
\expandafter\patchcmd\expandafter{\csname\string\DTLdisplaylongdb\endcsname}%
         {\@dtl@resetdoamp\dtldisplaystarttab}%
         {\dtldisplaystarttab\@dtl@resetdoamp}%
         {\message{Patching succeeded.}}%
         {\message{Patching failed.}}%
\makeatother
\fi

%===============================================================
\DTLnewdb{MyDataBase}%
\DTLaddcolumn{MyDataBase}{columnA}%
\DTLsetheader{MyDataBase}{columnA}{First Column}%
\DTLaddcolumn{MyDataBase}{columnB}%
\DTLsetheader{MyDataBase}{columnB}{Second Column}%
%---------------------------------------------------------------
\DTLnewrow{MyDataBase}
\DTLnewdbentry{MyDataBase}{columnA}{Row 1 Col A}
\DTLnewdbentry{MyDataBase}{columnB}{Row 1 Col B}
%---------------------------------------------------------------
\DTLnewrow{MyDataBase}
\DTLnewdbentry{MyDataBase}{columnA}{Row 2 Col A}
\DTLnewdbentry{MyDataBase}{columnB}{Row 2 Col B}
%===============================================================

\begin{document}

\begingroup
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Without patching this doesn't work out but yields 
%  ! Misplaced \noalign.
\renewcommand{\dtldisplaystarttab}{\hline}%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\renewcommand\dtldisplayafterhead{\hline}%
\renewcommand\dtldisplaystartrow{\hline}%
\renewcommand{\dtldisplayendtab}{\tabularnewline\hline}%
\renewcommand{\dtlbeforecols}{|}%
\renewcommand{\dtlaftercols}{|}%
\renewcommand{\dtlbetweencols}{|}%
\renewcommand\dtlheaderformat[1]{\textbf{#1}\hfil\null}%
\DTLdisplaylongdb{MyDataBase}
\endgroup

\end{document}

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