Glossary of Terms

Cover

A cover sheet of a spreadsheet. Contains information about the dataset(s) in the Excel workbook, such as publication dates and methodology notes. Handled by the Cover class.

Element

A part of a table, such as a title or subtitle. Relevant when defining values of elements in a GPTable.

GPTable

A Good Practice Table object, which has data and elements such as title, subtitles, and column units associated with it.

Placeholder

A note reference denoted by double dollar notation, e.g. $$placeholder_text$$. These are replaced by numbers when the workbook is written to file.

Theme

A .yaml file describing pre-set formatting options.