You should take this straight to Patrick 
Royston. As often emphasised in this 
list, he is not a member of Statalist. But he does 
respond to reports of apparent bugs. 
This report should be accompanied by 
a log of your trace. 
Nick 
[email protected] 
[email protected]
 
> We are having difficult running the mvis program, 
> specifically the use of 
> the [weight] command. We invoke mvis as prescribed but, when 
> we insert the 
> weight command [weighttype=varname], the program errors out with the 
> message that "fweight not found". When we set trace on to see 
> what's up, 
> the program moves through to _mvis and then errors out. To 
> our untutored 
> eyes, it appears that _mvis is stripping out the brackets and 
> the reading 
> fweight as a variable. The program errors out regardless of 
> the weight type 
> we invoke. Otherwise, minus the weight command, mvis works 
> fine. 
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