Re: st: smcl question

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

Joseph,

I see I should have provided more information. I open a log
file as smcl, and then use -display- with either nothing or
-in smcl- (I have the same output and problem both ways).

I don't send any other tags, but when I get to where my counter
-$dline- indicates there will be a new page (with $pagelines
rows) before the current table (which is `num' rows) is output,
I do this prior to printing the table:


	if $dline+`num'>$pagelines {
		log on `log1'
		noi di in smcl "{newpage}"
		log off `log1'
		global dline=0
	}


That is, start a newpage and reset the line counter $dline.
The table is output to the log file using -display' (nothing).
What I get is (I'm summarizing hundreds of different
variables, these two are Inches and Feet):

{com}{sf}{ul off}Inches
{col 5}Mean{col 30}     6.5
{col 5}SD  {col 30}     9.2
{col 5}Min{col 30}     0.0
{col 5}Max{col 30}    74.0
{col 5}Obs{col 30}     856
{col 5}Missing{col 30}       0
{smcl}
{com}{sf}{ul off}{smcl}
{com}{sf}{ul off}{newpage}
{smcl}
{com}{sf}{ul off}{smcl}
{com}{sf}{ul off}Feet
{col 5}Mean{col 30}     5.1
{col 5}SD  {col 30}     0.5
{col 5}Min{col 30}     0.0
{col 5}Max{col 30}     6.0
{col 5}Obs{col 30}     840
{col 5}Missing{col 30}      16


When I translate to PostScript and then run Adobe Distiller
or Acrobat (v 8 on XP), I get the page breaking in the right
place (that is, after the Inches table there are a few lines
of white space) but there are two page breaks.

When I open in GhostView I get a message that the page numbers
are not in order, and I can "okay" or "cancel" - if I "okay",
I get just one page (ie, remaining pages lost); if I "cancel"
I get the page breaks just fine.

Does this explain the problem more clearly? Somehow, by inserting
the {newpage} I seem to be screwing up the page numbering, and
different packages (Ghostview, Adobe) treat it differently. But
I can't figure out how to control the page breaks otherwise.

thanks,
Jeph


Joseph Coveney wrote:
> Jeph Herrin wrote:
>
> I'm trying to understand why the followin SMCL produces
> not one but TWO page breaks, when the postscript translator
> is applied:
>
>  {smcl}
>  {com}{sf}{ul off}{smcl}
>  {com}{sf}{ul off}{newpage}
>  {smcl}
>  {com}{sf}{ul off}{smcl}
>
>
> All I'm doing is writing the {newpage}, but apparently
> opening and closing the log file produces the other tags.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
> Jeff, how are you producing the log file?
>
> With any of the three types of -display- (nothing, -_asis- and -in 
> smcl-) in
> either of the two do-files below (logged from a called program or logged
> directly from the do-file), the PostScript file produced from the SMCL
> directives above only has at most a single page break, i.e., has one or two
> pages in total when read by GSview (Version 4.8 on Windows XP Pro, SP3).
>
> Joseph Coveney
>
> Log created from within a called program:
>
> clear *
> set more off
> program define printem
>    version 10
>    syntax , LOGfile(string) [type(string) REPLACE]
>    capture log close
>    quietly log using "`logfile'.smcl", smcl `replace'
>    display `type' "{smcl}"
>    display `type' "{com}{sf}{ul off}{smcl}"
>    display `type' "{com}{sf}{ul off}{newpage}"
>    display `type' "{smcl}"
>    display `type' "{com}{sf}{ul off}{smcl}"
>    quietly log close
> end
> foreach type in nothing _asis "in smcl" {
>    printem , log("`type'") ///
>      type(`=cond("`type'" == "nothing", "", "`type'")')
>    translate "`type'.smcl" "`type'.ps"
> }
> exit
>
> Log created directly in a do-file:
> clear *
> set more off
> *
> capture log close
> quietly log using nothing.smcl, smcl replace
> display "{smcl}"
> display "{com}{sf}{ul off}{smcl}"
> display "{com}{sf}{ul off}{newpage}"
> display "{smcl}"
> display "{com}{sf}{ul off}{smcl}"
> quietly log close
> translate nothing.smcl nothing.ps, replace
> *
> quietly log using _asis.smcl, smcl replace
> display _asis "{smcl}"
> display _asis "{com}{sf}{ul off}{smcl}"
> display _asis "{com}{sf}{ul off}{newpage}"
> display _asis "{smcl}"
> display _asis "{com}{sf}{ul off}{smcl}"
> quietly log close
> translate _asis.smcl _asis.ps, replace
> *
> quietly log using "in smcl.smcl", smcl replace
> display in smcl "{smcl}"
> display in smcl "{com}{sf}{ul off}{smcl}"
> display in smcl "{com}{sf}{ul off}{newpage}"
> display in smcl "{smcl}"
> display in smcl "{com}{sf}{ul off}{smcl}"
> quietly log close
> translate "in smcl.smcl" "in smcl.ps", replace
> exit
>
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