Re: st: log2html smcl formatting TOC

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

I don't think this is the point Jacob is raising. Such commands will
still appear in the log.

But Billy is pointing in a key direction.

Rather than fixing the log, or more generally the output,
retrospectively, write a program to produce the output you want (and
nothing else).

It is difficult to work out the trade-off, but I wonder how many spend
time wrestling with the intricacies of the highly flexible
output-management tools when they could have more quickly written a
script to produce precisely the output they need in the form they need
it. The choice between learning how to use others' programs and
learning how to write your own is probably difficult for us all.

Nick

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Billy Schwartz <wkschwartz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Simply to hide input text, quite -quietly- blocks. If you want
> headings inside a quietly block, use -noisily display- and put in some
> info about what command is running.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Jakob Petersen <jpeterb@essex.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> I would like to produce summary statistics for a batch of files.
>> I am using log and log2html to format the results and have a couple of questions;
>>
>> ****************************************************************
>> cap log close
>> log using sysdirvars,replace
>>
>> sysuse dir
>> local allfiles "`r(files)'"
>> foreach f of local allfiles {
>> sysuse "`f'", clear
>> di _newline "{title:`f'}"
>> di "{title:Variable list}"
>> descsave, list(name varlab, clean noobs)
>> }
>>
>> log close
>> log2html sysdirvars, replace title(Variables in Example Files)
>> ****************************************************************
>>
>> 1. Is it possible to suppress [input] from being printed in the log file (other than by changing the colour to white)?
>> 2. Is it possible to format the headers in this example such that they could be used when creating a table of contents in a word processor (heading 1, heading 2, etc.)?
>>
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