X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Flanguage.texi;h=e23a558028805dbc9babcb360811d34c87258434;hb=e9599a2f8e86d986fff1518682ba8942bd67d1c0;hp=ed1123dbb68ea9a433a5394767655497f843749e;hpb=8af88c0b7ea2fe75df7e45497988ed0371006a86;p=pspp-builds.git diff --git a/doc/language.texi b/doc/language.texi index ed1123db..e23a5580 100644 --- a/doc/language.texi +++ b/doc/language.texi @@ -3,11 +3,9 @@ @cindex language, PSPP @cindex PSPP, language -@quotation -@strong{Please note:} PSPP is not even close to completion. +@note{PSPP is not even close to completion. Only a few statistical procedures are implemented. PSPP -is a work in progress. -@end quotation +is a work in progress.} This chapter discusses elements common to many PSPP commands. Later chapters will describe individual commands in detail. @@ -381,9 +379,7 @@ spaces. Variables, whether numeric or string, can have designated @dfn{user-missing values}. Every user-missing value is an actual value for that variable. However, most of the time user-missing values are -treated in the same way as the system-missing value. String variables -that are wider than a certain width, usually 8 characters (depending on -computer architecture), cannot have user-missing values. +treated in the same way as the system-missing value. For more information on missing values, see the following sections: @ref{Variables}, @ref{MISSING VALUES}, @ref{Expressions}. See also the @@ -449,13 +445,9 @@ Numeric or string. @item Width (string variables only) String variables with a width of 8 characters or fewer are called @dfn{short string variables}. Short string variables -can be used in many procedures where @dfn{long string variables} (those +may be used in a few contexts where @dfn{long string variables} (those with widths greater than 8) are not allowed. -Certain systems may consider strings longer than 8 -characters to be short strings. Eight characters represents a minimum -figure for the maximum length of a short string. - @item Position Variables in the dictionary are arranged in a specific order. @cmd{DISPLAY} can be used to show this order: see @ref{DISPLAY}. @@ -1172,6 +1164,7 @@ trailing white space. The maximum width for time and date formats is 40 columns. Minimum input and output width for each of the time and date formats is shown below: + @float @multitable {DATETIME} {Min. Input Width} {Min. Output Width} {4-digit year} @headitem Format @tab Min. Input Width @tab Min. Output Width @tab Option @@ -1493,4 +1486,3 @@ The first nonterminal defined in a set of productions is called the @dfn{start symbol}. The start symbol defines the entire syntax for that command. @end itemize -@setfilename ignored