Re: User manual

[John Darrington]

I guess there is some component of the graphicx package which needs to be
installed.   I'll have to look at this to see if it can be made more tolerant
of missing {La}TeX packages.

J'
        
On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 02:34:39PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     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'