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

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

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Roger said

Thanks to Kit for the info. What we need now (as Maarten says, and in  
case any StataCorp people are listening) is a way to translate a group  
of .sthlp files to .html, translating the .smcl hyperrefs to  
corresponding .html hyperrefs. That would be particularly helpful for  
people like me, who typically document a large comprehensive package  
with a whole tree of .sthlp files referring to each other. I do not  
know how feasible this is.


As -log- is kernel code, not ado-file code, that will be feasible if  
and only if StataCorp decides to implement it. It is certainly  
technically feasible, but given the lack of interest in even admitting  
the existence of -log html- by documenting it, I am not sure how  
popular this idea might be.

Putting on-line help in HTML form -- including that related to user- 
written routines -- helps put Stata on more of a level playing field  
with R, MATLAB and other statistical languages that make such  
information available in HTML form.

Kit Baum   |   Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin   |   http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
                              An Introduction to Stata Programming   
|   http://www.stata-press.com/books/isp.html
   An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata  |   http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html




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