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Re: st: LaTeX in variable labels for esttab
From
Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Re: st: LaTeX in variable labels for esttab
Date
Fri, 25 May 2012 12:29:49 -0400
Bert Lloyd <[email protected]>:
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 <[email protected]> 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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