Until now, the PSPP output engine has had a pretty basic notion of what constitutes a table. It was essentially the same sort of model you'd find in a word processor, where a table has some number of rows and columns and you can put what you want in them, join or split them, add lines between them, and so on. It's flexible enough, but not well suited for filling with data.
Over the last few months, I've reimplemented the output engine in terms of pivot tables, similar to what you'd find in spreadsheet software or in SPSS. This is maybe slightly less flexible overall, but it's a lot easier to deal with as a developer (it takes less code and less thought to produce output that is at least as nice) and ultimately should allow for a much better user interface. Tonight, I got that work to a point where I was satisfied and pushed it to master. For now, users probably won't notice big changes. For some procedures, the output will appear a little different. Please report any bugs you find. I am now working toward the next step, in which PSPPIRE becomes able to read SPV files. After that, I might work to make it able to write them as well. It's also now a lot more feasible to add some interface for editing tables (and for pivoting them!) to the UI. _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
