Re: st: [Stata 12] can't insert braces and other special characters

[Dirk Enzmann <dirk.enzmann@uni-hamburg.de>]

Daniel wrote:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/lwgate/STATALIST/archives/statalist.1108/date/article-50.html

The preliminary solution is to use the <ALT><NUM>-combination (NUM keys 
are the numbers on the numeric keypad of your keyboard, not the numbers 
in the top row). You produce the characters by pressing the <ALT> key 
and simultaneously entering the ASCII-code denoting the characters you 
want to produce as follows:

<ALT><91> : [
<ALT><93> : ]
<ALT><123> : {
<ALT><125> : }

Unfortunately, "²" (like in R²) can't be produced in this way, but this 
is not vital.

For users using keyboards of notebooks with not separate numeric keypad 
this is a bit more difficult because they have to switch on the "keypad" 
by using special function keys, enter the code, and have to switch back 
to normal.

This is a preliminary solution; as I understood, programmers at 
StataCorp are busy solving the problem.

BTW: Those who are using Friedrich Huebler's AutoIt scripts (rundo.au3 
or rundolines.au3) should note that in Stata 12 the shortcut to activate 
the command window has changed from <CTRL><4> to <CTRL><1>. To make use 
of the scripts the command -Send("^4")- has to be changed to 
-Send("^1")- (twice in each script).

Dirk

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