A user wishes 3 decimals in certain output instead of 1, just change the
format of that display line from %8.1f to %11.3f and you have a new
output. In this situation I would:
1. add a line at the top of the ado: *! Modified in line xx for display of
more decimals
2, change the name of the command, e.g. _cut to _cutjl and save the ado
under a new name to make sure I had not by mistake introduced an error in
a core or addon program.
This is good advice, but must be qualified. If I did this literally, I
would end up with cutjl.ado WITHIN THE STATA FOLDER. A very bad idea to put
anything of yours in the Stata folder; it should go in /ado, /ado/personal,
your current directory, whereever you wish, but not within the Stata
folder. Otherwise, when you go to update your Stata to the new version
someday, you risk losing all of the personal stuff if you do not remember
about it.
