Michel Boaventura <[email protected]> writes: > On SPSS, if a user copy the output, and paste it on word or openoffice > writer, it will get it formated just like on spss. > But if the user paste it on notepad, or vim, the user gets only the text > output. > It happens because when you copy the output, SPSS gives to you an RTF > text, who can mantain formatation or not, > depending where it is pasted. > > It will be great if PSPP could do something like that, because a lot > of SPSS users just copy the output table, and paste it > on word without any changes. I've found and description of rtf file on > "http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/RTF-Spec-1.0.txt"; and > it seems not to hard do implement. > > I would like to try to implement it, but I need some tips of how to do > that. But first of all, do you think it will be useful on PSPP?
PSPP already supports text formatting for its output. I think that we should be able to make sure that cutting-and-pasting into program such as Notepad works with that format properly. I don't see an advantage in making text output go through an intermediate RTF step. It would be nice to make PSPP support output in OpenDocument format (ODF), for high-quality pasting into OpenOffice, etc. Do you have any interest in working on that? (There is already a bug filed with this as a feature request.) -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
