I'm writing this up in case anyone is interested. A while ago, I planned to start work on CTABLES. I asked for example uses and only got back a few of them, from just one person I think. All of those examples also used the SPSS macro facility (the DEFINE command), so I decided to implement that first.
I've spent considerable effort on that now. Basic macros now work in my development branch at https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pspp;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/dev6 I spent most of yesterday writing documentation for it. This involved a lot of careful reading and research, because there is a terrible amount of vagueness and ambiguity in the SPSS documentation in this area. I still have a lot of documentation and code to write, but there's progress. Ben
