Re: Antwort: st: passing single left-quotes to latex via -texdoc-

[Eric Booth <ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu>]

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Yes, this does fix the problem.  
Thanks, Richard -- great idea.

- Eric
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On Feb 3, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Richard Ochmann wrote:

> ...
> Eric,
> 
> have you tried the csquotes package in latex? it allows you to use 
> \enquote{} to put your words in quotes, instead of actually writing out 
> the quotes.
> 
> best,
> richard
> 
> owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu schrieb am 03.02.2011 18:07:26:
> 
>> <>
>> *!  apologies if this comes through twice, I forgot to change the 
>> original msg to 'plain text' and I've waited a while and it hasn't 
>> come through yet
>> _________
>> I'm using Ben Jann's -texdoc- (from SSC, -findit texdoc-) using Mac 
>> OSX 10.6 &/or Windows 7, Stata 11 MP to create a latex document. 
>> When sending a contraction (like "don't") to the latex document from
>> the do-file via the -tex- command, I am having trouble because Stata
>> interprets the single left-quote and the single right-quote as a 
>> local macro before it's sent to latex (.tex file) for processing. 
>> So, if I want the following the typeset latex document to show: 
>> 
>>          "don't know something." 
>> 
>> then I would normally put this into the latex .tex document: 
>> 
>>         ``don't know something." 
>> 
>> with 2 single left-quotes in front of the word "don't"; however 
>> Stata is trying to interpret one of those with as a local macro 
>> ending in the apostrophe in the word "don't."
>> 
>> I tried escape characters and double quoting the left-quotes and 
>> right-quotes, but I cannot get it to pass the text to latex properly
>> (No, I cannot change the language to "do not.")   I can get it to 
>> pass the two left-quotes properly if I change the apostrophe in 
>> "don't" to a left-quote as well, but this is not ideal (see the 3rd 
>> example below.) 
>> 
>> The code below shows a self-contained example of what I'm doing. 
>> I included an extra macro (called mymacro) to show that complicating
>> this quotes/double quotes set up are many local macros spread 
>> throughout these sentences, which add more sets of left and right 
>> quotes to deal with. 
>> The part at the bottom can be discarded, but if you've got latex 
>> installed (I use miktex on windows and mactex on mac), this should 
>> process/typeset the document and allow you to see the interpreted 
>> output without having to navigate to the files -- it may not work 
>> with all configurations.
>> 
>> *-------------------------------------------------------*  Begin
>> clear 
>> pwd   //note: here's where the files will be stored
>> loc mymacro   "something here."
>> 
>> *****texdoc
>> texdoc init dontknow, replace
>> tex \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>> tex \usepackage{times,graphicx,fancyhdr,lastpage,ulem,amsmath}
>> tex \begin{document}
>> tex ``don't know `mymacro'"  %doesnt work
>> tex
>> tex "``"don't know `mymacro'"  %%doesnt work
>> tex
>> tex ``don`t know `mymacro'"    %% this _works_ but w/o apostrophe
>> tex \end{document}
>> texdoc close
>> *-------------------------------------------------------*
>> if "`c(os)'" == "Windows"{
>>   cap rm "dontknow.pdf"
>>   !pdflatex "dontknow.tex"
>>   di as smcl `"CLICK TO OPEN: {browse `"dontknow.pdf"'}"'
>>   }
>> 
>> if "`c(os)'" == "MacOSX" {
>>   **no, pdflatex is not in my $PATH for some local configuration 
> reasons**
>>   !/usr/texbin/pdflatex  "dontknow.tex"  "dontknow"
>>   !open "dontknow.pdf"
>>   di as smcl `"CLICK TO OPEN: {browse `"dontknow.pdf"'}"'
>>   }
>> *-------------------------------------------------------*  End
>> 
>> 
>> I've searched several latex help pages, but this really is a issue 
>> that happens on the Stata-side of things (before it's sent to the .
>> tex file) so I'm hoping others here might have come across this 
>> issue and found a better solution than using a single left-quote in 
>> place of the apostrophe.
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>> 
>> - Eric
>> 
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>> Eric A. Booth
>> Public Policy Research Institute
>> Texas A&M University
>> ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu
>> Office: +979.845.6754
>> Fax: +979.845.0249
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