st: Re: reporting variables in a table

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

The issue here has nothing in particular to do with Stata. There are 
two kinds of fonts: monospace (like an old typewriter; Courier used to 
be the default typeface on IBM Selectrics) and proportional space. 
Tabular data will generally require the use of a monospace font in a 
word processor unless the WP has the intelligence to align decimal 
points, etc. (as does LaTeX). If you examine the Stata Journal listings 
of Stata logs (produced by LaTeX) you will note that a monospace font 
is used there to ensure alignment.

But if you take any tab-delimited information that is meant to be a 
table and display it in, e.g., Times New Roman in Word, it will 
probably not look very good. Monospace fonts or "decimal tabs" are 
generally needed to deal with that in the context of Word.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html

On Jan 4, 2005, at 2:33 AM, Michael wrote:


> Hello, I would like to display the contents of two variables, med1 and
> med0, in a table formatted for a manuscript.
> I have tried the list command, but this does not include graph options 
> for
> font, etc., and my tables lose their readability in WORD when 
> formatted in
> anything other than the courier font.
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