Re: st: texdoc

[Michael Norman Mitchell <Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com>]

Dear Nick, Austin, Phil, Dave

  Thank you all for your thoughts on this... I appreciate it very much!!

  Unfortunately, I am in the situation of not only trying to save Stata 
output/graphs as a word document myself, but coming up with a solution 
that will work for our entire group of Stata users, which includes quite 
a mixture of technical levels. While these solutions are very clever, I 
fret they are too intricate for our user base. This is especially the 
case for those who also use SPSS and will ask me why they cannot just 
-save as a word document (RTF)- in one step as they can do in SPSS.

Many thanks!

Michael N. Mitchell
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On 2010-05-17 12.03 PM, Phil Schumm wrote:
> On May 17, 2010, at 1:16 PM, Michael Norman Mitchell wrote:
> > Thanks for posting this to bring this to our (and my) attention. I 
> > always believe very strongly in using this kind of "weaving" approach 
> > and find it very efficient. Are you (or is anyone on the Statalist) 
> > aware of a tool similar to this that weaves comments, commands, 
> > output, and graphs into a Word document? At my work, we are in 
> > constant need of creating such integrated outputs and the standard 
> > format is a Word document.
>
>
> I'm afraid your options here are going to be a lot more restricted if 
> your target format is Word, since the people who have worked on this 
> problem have tended to prefer LaTeX-based approaches or similar.  The 
> one MS Office-based product I'm aware of for doing reproducible 
> research is inference, from Blue Reference (http://inference.us/).  
> Unfortunately, I don't believe they currently support Stata (I could 
> be wrong here, since I haven't looked at this in a while).  I don't 
> use Word myself, so there may be other MS Office-based options of 
> which I am unaware.  One could certainly write something that would 
> work with Office (as inference demonstrates), however you'd have to 
> use VSTO and you'd be stuck with MS's upgrade cycles.
>
> Another alternative is to use one of the other tools for reproducible 
> research (e.g., StatWeave) and then translate the final product into 
> Word.  This is the strategy I tend to favor when I have to deliver a 
> final product in Word format, and there are several options here 
> (though none of them is perfect).  For example, you can translate from 
> LaTeX to RTF using latex2rtf, and then open the RTF file in Word (this 
> is what I normally use).  Another option is to use TeX4ht to translate 
> from LaTeX into Open Office, and then use Open Office to save the 
> file(s) in Word format.  There may be better tool-chains for doing 
> this out there -- I just don't do it often enough to go looking.
>
> Ideally, you'd get people to covert to PDF as the target format (after 
> all, you can work with PDFs on all platforms), and then you'd be in 
> better shape.
>
>
> -- Phil
>
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