Note that the excel_tab class is registered as the "excel-tab" dialect.
Fixes 1572471. Make a similar change for the excel class and clean up
references to the Dialects and Formatting Parameters section in a few
places.
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcsv.tex b/Doc/lib/libcsv.tex
index 8e10ccf..02a176c 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libcsv.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libcsv.tex
@@ -64,9 +64,9 @@
class or one of the strings returned by the \function{list_dialects}
function. The other optional {}\var{fmtparam} keyword arguments can be
given to override individual formatting parameters in the current
-dialect. For more information about the dialect and formatting
+dialect. For full details about the dialect and formatting
parameters, see section~\ref{csv-fmt-params}, ``Dialects and Formatting
-Parameters'' for details of these parameters.
+Parameters''.
All data read are returned as strings. No automatic data type
conversion is performed.
@@ -96,10 +96,10 @@
of a subclass of the \class{Dialect} class or one of the strings
returned by the \function{list_dialects} function. The other optional
{}\var{fmtparam} keyword arguments can be given to override individual
-formatting parameters in the current dialect. For more information
+formatting parameters in the current dialect. For full details
about the dialect and formatting parameters, see
-section~\ref{csv-fmt-params}, ``Dialects and Formatting Parameters'' for
-details of these parameters. To make it as easy as possible to
+section~\ref{csv-fmt-params}, ``Dialects and Formatting Parameters''.
+To make it as easy as possible to
interface with modules which implement the DB API, the value
\constant{None} is written as the empty string. While this isn't a
reversible transformation, it makes it easier to dump SQL NULL data values
@@ -113,9 +113,8 @@
or Unicode object. The dialect can be specified either by passing a
sub-class of \class{Dialect}, or by \var{fmtparam} keyword arguments,
or both, with keyword arguments overriding parameters of the dialect.
-For more information about the dialect and formatting parameters, see
-section~\ref{csv-fmt-params}, ``Dialects and Formatting Parameters''
-for details of these parameters.
+For full details about the dialect and formatting parameters, see
+section~\ref{csv-fmt-params}, ``Dialects and Formatting Parameters''.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{unregister_dialect}{name}
@@ -197,12 +196,13 @@
\begin{classdesc}{excel}{}
The \class{excel} class defines the usual properties of an Excel-generated
-CSV file.
+CSV file. It is registered with the dialect name \code{'excel'}.
\end{classdesc}
\begin{classdesc}{excel_tab}{}
The \class{excel_tab} class defines the usual properties of an
-Excel-generated TAB-delimited file.
+Excel-generated TAB-delimited file. It is registered with the dialect name
+\code{'excel-tab'}.
\end{classdesc}
\begin{classdesc}{Sniffer}{}