On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:32:37PM -0300, Michel Boaventura wrote:
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.Believe me, it's hard. Some years ago I played with RTF myself. (The results of my efforts are at http://darrington.wattle.id.au/drow.tar.gz --- please don't ask me for support on that software; I haven't looked at it for years.) The RTF spec is poorly written, ambiguous in many places. Furthermore, the RTF files produced by Microsoft applications use features which are not documented in any published spec, and in some instances contradict the specs which are published. 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? I think that having a RTF output driver would be a useful addition, but I wouldn't like any major part of PSPP to depend upon the existence of RTF. In any case, if we're talking about generating ODF/RTF/LaTeX or whatever format, it doesn't make any sense to start from plain text. Either we have to add drivers to our existing output subsystem, or we need some kind of intermediate format. At one time Ben mentioned an HDLF5 based representation, but I don't know if that's still on the cards. -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://pgp.mit.edu or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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