Fredrik,
I've done more testing, and I've noticed that the problem is unique to the platform (windows).
For example, the same thing happens libreoffice (the table is copied in plain text or Unicode text), so that could be a problem in the GTK + for windows. In Linux there is no problem (tested in Libreoffice and using Office under WINE).
Forwarding mail to the main developers, perhaps they can better understand the problem to fix.
For now, as a temporary solution I recommend you export the PSPP output in HTML format, and then import it into excel. If you need specific tables, the copy from that same file.
It's an extra step, but it is better to sort the table by hand. (that
until the problem is solved).
Greetings.
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De: Fredrik Clementz <address@hidden>
Para: Bastián
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Enviado: Viernes, 6 de septiembre, 2013 3:23:08
Asunto: Re: 3 withstanding functions?
Hi Bastian,
Thank you for your swift reply.
Regarding the Variable Labels / names... thank you.. I didn't know it was available under right click =)
Will post a report on the merge files....
Now the "office" question.
My background is in the commercial world, and if we do an operation say 50 times a day, we can't manually edit the output in Excel for every export to make it look descent when the alternative software does this automatically. Please, view the attached movie. From a commercial standpoint, we'd loose say 2-3 minutes at any given time, and multiplying that by say 50, it is not an option.
http://screencast.com/t/tb0tpM19sAt any given time, any output that is produced from PSPP will most likely end in Excel or equivalent one way or the other. To make it difficult for users to get there is really not best practice and it will effectively hinder any commercial adoption at all. I believe this is the reason why R is so widely used in the academic world but not in the commercial world because there is output constraints....
I can't really tell how much work it would be to make the output look descent, I'm just saying that it's a dealbreaker for me and most likely many like me.
Kind regards,
F