Never mind. I needed
program checkend
args linenum
quietly {
...
}
end
Jeph Herrin wrote:
> After many years of resistance, I am trying my hand
> at generating attractive reports directly from Stata
> via SMCL. I have run into a quietly/noisily problem.
>
> The general idea is that I have to create a massive
> set of tables of variables that are one of several
> types. I can trap their type, and then depending on
> their type I call a program which takes an integer
> argument to determine if the table will run off the
> page; if so, I want to insert a {newpage} first, and
> reset the line counter accordingly.
>
> program checkend
> args linenum
> if $line+`linenum'>$pagelength {
> log on mylog
> noi di "{newpage}"
> noi di "`header'"
> log off mylog
> global line=1 /* one line for the header */
> }
> global line=$line+`linenum'
> end
>
>
> quietly {
> foreach var in hugevarlist {
> gettype `var' /* trust me, this works */
> if `type'=="S" {
> noi checkend 3
> log on mylog
> noi print the output
> log off mylog
> }
> if `type'=="C" {
> levelsof `var'
> local nvals =r(nvals) /* modified -levelsof-*/
> local chk=`nvals'+1
> noi checkend `chk'
> log on mylog
> noi print the output
> log off mylog
> }
> }
> }
>
> The problem is that the program -checkend- is NOT producing
> any output.
>
> When I take the contents of the program and paste it into
> each location, everything works fine. However, there are 10
> different types of variables, and when I fiddle with the font
> and header, I have to go back through and edit each one. It
> will be much better if I can keep it in a program.
>
> I CAN get -checkend- to produce output by using
>
> noi di as smcl "{newpage}"
>
> but then what I get isn't smcl, and the postscript translator
> produces something that is broken (ie, can't be translated to
> PDF). Moreover, the log file is defined as SMCL, so this seems
> superfluous.
>
> I'm thinking the problem may be that the log file -mylog- isn't
> passing to the program? I have to use a named log file because
> I need a second log file open to track some other output for
> each variable.
>
> Otherwise, it must be that I'm not using quietly noisily
> correctly, but I thought
> quietly noi myprog
>
> would let -myprog- output whatever it wanted to.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Jeph
>
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