Re: User manual

[Ben Pfaff]

All the new TeX driver tests fail for me with output like this:

#                             -*- compilation -*-
1206. tex.at:162: testing tex simple example ...
../../tests/tex.at:177: pspp -O format=tex simple.sps
../../tests/tex.at:178: test $(wc -L pspp.tex | awk '{print $1}') -le 80
stdout:
../../tests/tex.at:181: $TEX --halt-on-error pspp.tex
stdout:
This is TeX, Version 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2020/Debian) (preloaded format=tex)
(./pspp.tex (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/graphics-pln/graphicx.tex
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/graphics-pln/miniltx.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics-cfg/graphics.cfg)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics-def/dvips.def)
! Undefined control sequence.
l.118 \protected
                \def\includegraphics{%
No pages of output.
Transcript written on pspp.log.
../../tests/tex.at:181: exit code was 1, expected 0
1206. tex.at:162: 1206. tex simple example (tex.at:162): FAILED (tex.at:181)

The generated pspp.tex is:

%% TeX output of pspp

%% Define the horizontal space between table columns
\def\psppcolumnspace{1mm}

\input graphicx


%% Sets the environment for rendering material in table cell
%% The parameter is the number of columns in the table
\def\cell#1{\normalbaselines\advance\hsize by
-#1.0\psppcolumnspace\advance\hsize by \psppcolumnspace\divide\hsize by
#1\noindent\raggedright\hskip0pt}

%% Render the text centre justified
\def\startcentre{\begingroup\leftskip=0pt plus 1fil
\rightskip=\leftskip\parfillskip=0pt}
\def\stopcentre{\par\endgroup}
\long\def\centre#1{\startcentre#1\stopcentre}

%% Render the text right justified
\def\startright{\begingroup\leftskip=0pt plus 1fil
\parfillskip=0pt}
\def\stopright{\par\endgroup}
\long\def\right#1{\startright#1\stopright}


{\parindent=0pt
{\bf Reading free-form data from INLINE.}\par
\offinterlineskip\halign{\strut%
{\vbox{\cell{2}#}}\hskip\psppcolumnspace\hfil&\vrule
{\vbox{\cell{2}#}}\cr
Variable&\centre{Format}\cr
\noalign{\hrule\vskip -\normalbaselineskip}\cr
name&A16\cr
score&F8.0\cr
}% End of \halign
}
\vskip 3ex


{\parindent=0pt
{\bf Descriptive Statistics}\par
\offinterlineskip\halign{\strut%
{\vbox{\cell{6}#}}\hskip\psppcolumnspace\hfil&\vrule
{\vbox{\cell{6}#}}\hskip\psppcolumnspace\hfil&\vrule
{\vbox{\cell{6}#}}\hskip\psppcolumnspace\hfil&\vrule
{\vbox{\cell{6}#}}\hskip\psppcolumnspace\hfil&\vrule
{\vbox{\cell{6}#}}\hskip\psppcolumnspace\hfil&\vrule
{\vbox{\cell{6}#}}\cr
\centre{}&\centre{N}&\centre{Mean}&\centre{Std
Dev}&\centre{Minimum}&\centre{Maximum}\cr
\noalign{\hrule\vskip -\normalbaselineskip}\cr
score&\right{4}&\right{28.10}&\right{20.16}&\right{12.10}&\right{54.10}\cr
Valid N (listwise)&\right{4}&&&&\cr
Missing N (listwise)&\right{0}&&&&\cr
}% End of \halign
}
\vskip 3ex


\bye

On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 2:31 PM Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> Is the new TeX output driver meant to help with this?
>
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 1:17 PM Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Sure! I'll work on that now.
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 1:16 PM John Darrington
> > <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 11:29:18AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > >
> > >      I suspect that the tutorial would be more useful if it was not
> > >      oriented around using the command syntax interactively. I doubt that
> > >      is a common way to use PSPP. It seems to me that users are more 
> > > likely
> > >      to use PSPP either by writing syntax files in an editor and running
> > >      them noninteractively, or by using the GUI (either writing syntax
> > >      files there or using the dialog boxes).
> > >
> > >      Would you be OK with it if I modified the tutorial to be oriented
> > >      around writing syntax files, rather than around writing syntax
> > >      interactively in the text UI?
> > >
> > > Go ahead.  (I think however some mention of the interactive mode, perhaps 
> > > with a
> > > small example should remain).
> > >
> > > J'