st: New package -textpad- on SSC

[Roger Newson <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Thanks to Kit Baum, a new package -textpad- is now available for 
download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to do this.

The -textpad- package is described as below on my website. It allows the 
user to call TextPad from within Stata, as a user might want to do if 
using TextPad as an alternative to the Stata do-file editor. I would 
like to thank Nick Cox for suggesting this possibility, for text editors 
in general, in the notes on text editors for use with Stata at

http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/textEditors.html

The entry for TextPad there (by J. Scott Long) is a bit out of date, as 
new versions have continued to appear since since July 2003. I am 
currently using the very latest version (TextPad 5.4.1), supplied to me 
very kindly by their technical support team this morning. This new 
version has not yet appeared on the TextPad website, but probably soon 
will do.

I have found TextPad to be a good general solution to the general 
problem of working with Microsoft Windows. In particular, the user has 
the option of calling other programs (such as Stata, or shell scripts 
for running TeX) as "external tools" from within TextPad.

Best wishes

Roger


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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
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TITLE
      textpad: Call TextPad to edit a file

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      textpad calls the TextPad text editor, if this editor is
      installed on the user's system.  The TextPad text editor is a
      powerful multi-purpose text editor, available under Microsoft
      Windows operating environments.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 17november2010
      Stata-Version: 10

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      textpad.ado
      textpad.sthlp
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