Re: st: estabb and rtfutil combination.

["Roger B. Newson" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

I think the answer is to use -rtfclose- before -esttab-. The -esttab- 
command is designed to append tables to intact .rtf files that have 
already been closed. So, in your case, you can write a program like this 
one:

**** BEGINNING OF CODE - CUT HERE
clear;
sysuse auto;
tempname handle;
rtfopen `handle' using "esttabrtfopenexample.rtf", replace;
file write `handle' _n "{\line}";
file write `handle' _n "{\header\pard\sl360\slmult1\qr\plain\f0\chpgn
  {\i 	\fs20 Auto data analysis} \par}";
eststo tabl: estpost ta rep for;
rtfclose `handle';
esttab tabl using  "esttabrtfopenexample.rtf" , cell(colpct(fmt(2)))
 label noobs varwidth(10) modelwidth(8) addnote("Source: Author")
 append;
**** END OF CODE - CUT HERE

I don't know a way of inserting multiple -esttab- tables into a document 
produced by -rtfopen-. Perhaps I will add a -rtfappend- command to 
-rtfutil-.

I hope this helps.

Best wishes

Roger


Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
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On 10/02/2013 12:07, Amadou DIALLO wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying unsuccessfully to combine results produced by 2 different
> commands (rtfopen/file and estabb) into a single rtf file. The problem
> is that rtfutil is very good at handling text and graphs but I findit
> difficult to produce nice tables with desired formatting and
> characteristics attributes that I want them to have (which estabb does
> very well). Is there a workaround? See sample code below
> (esttabrtfopenexample produce blank page while esttabrtfopenexample2
> displays tables). Thanks in advance.
>
> clear
> sysuse auto
> tempname handle
> rtfopen `handle' using "esttabrtfopenexample.rtf", replace
> file write `handle' _n "{\line}"
> file write `handle' _n "{\header\pard\sl360\slmult1\qr\plain\f0\chpgn
> {\i 	\fs20 Auto data analysis} \par}"
> eststo tabl: estpost ta rep for
> esttab tabl using  "esttabrtfopenexample.rtf" , cell(colpct(fmt(2)))
> label noobs varwidth(10) modelwidth(8) addnote("Source: Author")
> append
> esttab tabl using  "esttabrtfopenexample2.rtf" , cell(colpct(fmt(2)))
> label noobs varwidth(10) modelwidth(8) addnote("Source: Author")
> replace
> rtfclose `handle'
> exit
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