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st: RE: RE: Re: extracting tables from stata


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: Re: extracting tables from stata
Date   Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:56:56 -0000

All official Stata help files for 
several years have made use of SMCL. 

Also, almost all user-written help files
now are written using SMCL. 

If you are seeing .hlp files that are 
not making use of SMCL they are almost
certainly some years old. 

Notepad is a minimal text editor available
under Windows (and thereby unavailable 
to those Stata users on Macintosh or Unix/
Linux). It has never been StataCorp policy
to tie any of their products to proprietary 
software, whether platform-specific or not. 

More importantly, the whole point of SMCL 
is to provide attractive and useful 
formatting of files, including clickable 
links. That is, SMCL is designed to 
benefit users in their use of help 
(and other) files within Stata. 

Now you can produce a version of the help 
files in Windows by copying and pasting from
the Viewer window to a text editor or word
processor. If you do this 
it is a good idea to make the Viewer 
window relatively narrow so that the 
lines become short. You can then edit
the copied material in NotePad or any decent text 
editor, although naturally the issue 
of copyright limits what you should 
do with the files. 

Alternatively, you can convert SMCL files to text 
using -translate-. You will 
lose much of the formatting, naturally. 

Alternatively, you can convert the SMCL 
to HTML using -log2html- from SSC, 
which then allows editing of the 
result in a program of your choice, 
although the same copyright issues arise. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Branko Milanovic
 
> Why is it that when I download some of the files the .hlp files
> sometimes come in smcl format which is really useless (rather 
> than as a
> neat text to be read in Notepad). What should I do? Can I convert smcl
> into text? (setting "set logtype text" does not help; i.e it 
> helps only
> when you export your own stata stuff into a text file).

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