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Antwort: st: -eststo- -esttab- and $ in LaTex code


From   Richard Ochmann <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Antwort: st: -eststo- -esttab- and $ in LaTex code
Date   Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:55:43 +0100

...
you can circumvent this issue with \textdollar.

***
sysuse auto
logit  foreign price rep78 weight
esttab, title(Test for different effects at \textdollar 2M, \textdollar 
10M, and \textdollar 43M)
***

best,
richard

[email protected] schrieb am 23.02.2011 23:17:07:

> I am using Ben Jann's -estout- and, more specifically, its -esttab- 
command 
> to create regression tables in LaTex format.
> 
> I haven't found a way within -esttab- to control dollar signs that are 
> part of my table captions and variable label names so that the 
> command produces
> LaTex code with a backslash (\) preceding each $. Consequently, I am 
having
> to manually type backslashes into the Tex code to get LaTex to compile.
> Doing this once or twice is not burdensome but when I need to rerun the
> Tex code several times as I tweak the -esttab- settings, it takes time.
> 
> For instance, in -esttab- I have a table caption of:
> title(Test for different effects at \$2M, \$10M, and \$43M)
> 
> The Tex code produced by -esttab- does not have the backslashes in
> this caption and, thus, LaTex will not run unless I manually type them 
into
> the code.
> 
> In addition to captions, the same thing happens for variable label 
names.
> For instance, I name a variable label "Total assets = \\$10M".
> -esttab- does not produce a backslash before the dollar sign. Thus, I
> am forced to manually type a backslash in front of that dollar sign
> to get LaTex to compile.
> 
> Is there a way to get the backslashes before the dollar signs into 
> the Tex code for table captions and variable label names using -esttab-?
> 
> 
> 
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