Re: st: LaTeX in variable labels for esttab

[Austin Nichols <austinnichols@gmail.com>]

Bert Lloyd <bert.lloyd.89@gmail.com>:
can't you just
-filefilter-
from("\rho\_{1}") to("\rho_{1}")
after the fact?

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Bert Lloyd <bert.lloyd.89@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
> I have a question about creating LaTeX tables using esttab (version
> 2.0.5  09mar2009, downloaded by -net install estout.pkg-).
>
> I would like to include LaTeX markup in the variable labels. For
> example, suppose I have a variable rho_1 and I would like it to appear
> in the table as a rho symbol with a 1 subscript.
>
> In stata, I create the label as follows"
> label variable rho_1 "$\rho_{1}$"
>
> and call esttab using the label option.
>
> However, esttab protects the underscore character by adding a
> backslash, so the LaTeX code that is created is:
> $\rho\_{1}$
> and what appears in the compiled pdf is a rho symbol, followed by an
> underscore, followed by a 1 (not as a subscript).
>
> Is there a way to turn off this protection? (Which, of course, makes a
> great deal of sense in many contexts.)

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