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Frequently in my articles I have a table accompanied by a text that cites numbers from the table and presents an analysis of those numbers. I would like a number in the text be updated automatically when I change the corresponding number in the table. I guess that I am looking for something like ...

Stefan_K wrote: I would use the datatool package for that purpose.

This seems to be exactly what I am looking for, but the link points to a huge documentation file. Has anyone compiled a list of key features that would suffice for most uses? Thanks!

I wrote a program that generates numeric data on which the tables in my article are based. I would like to find a way to automatically update all the numbers in the article when the program is re-run. The tables can have a complex format, so that simply importing the data into a spreadsheet and then ...