st: Re: SSC Archive help files now available in HTML

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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Is it also possible to replicate the hyperlinks, say in -h ivreg2- under 
"contents", for the html-version?


HTH
Martin
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From: "Kit Baum" <baum@bc.edu>
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Subject: st: SSC Archive help files now available in HTML


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> Stas said
>
> Looking up Stata official help files via
> http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?regress comes extremely handy at times,
> especially when I need to explain functionality of some commands to
> non-Stata users, or when I am on somebody else's computer, or when I
> do something in a remote terminal. Any way to twist the arms of that
> help.cgi script to open help files outside StataCorp website? Of
> course I can -view- them just fine from inside Stata, but I want to
> find a relatively easy way to access the external help files using
> just a standard browser.
>
>
> Following up this wishlist item, the help-file contents of the SSC 
> Archive (help ssc) are now available in HTML format.
>
> To read the help for -abar- in a browser,  go to
>
> http://repec.org/bocode/a/abar.html
>
> For -egenmore-,
>
> http://repec.org/bocode/e/egenmore.html
>
> For -ivreg2-,
>
> http://repec.org/bocode/i/ivreg2.html
>
> and so on. These are not produced on the fly, as StataCorp's cgi  script 
> does, but are static help files. They will be kept reasonably  up to date.
>
> Kit
>
> PS> Producing 1,792 help files in HTML format took about 9 lines of  ado 
> code and 12 lines of Mata code. Probably could be optimized.
>
> PPS> "y" aren't there any user-written Stata programs starting with  "y"? 
> Curious minds want to know...
>
> Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
> http://repec.org
>
>
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