On Oct 23, 2004, at 2:33 AM, Philippe wrote:
First, open a
(temporary) smcl log file and use standard Stata commands to output the
table you want to export (e.g. with things like -estimates table-,
- -tabdisp-, -table-, -tabulate-, etc.). Close the temporary log file.
In a
second step, use -file- (and a variety of string functions) to process
the
fragment of log-file created (that's only simple ASCII file
processing) and
export the result as LaTeX code (or any other mark-up language such as
html). The whole process is obviously best packaged in a single
programme.
That is exactly the approach followed by -log2html- of Baum/Cox/Rising
on SSC. Anyone who wishes to tinker is free to use it as a model to
create a formatter that creates LaTeX rather than HTML.
StataCorp also provides a similar facility in their -sj- set of tools
for Stata Journal articles (freely downloadable from the Stata Journal
website). That is,
sjlog using foo, replace
commands...
sjlog close, replace
will create foo.log.tex (see any SJ article which has an example of
Stata output included for a sample of this).
It is much easier to do this sort of transformation into LaTeX, since
it is an ASCII markup language like HTML, XML, etc. and the files
created can be automatically included in a document (requiring no
manual copy/paste steps).
Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
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