Re: st: One help file for two program

[John Antonakis <John.Antonakis@unil.ch>]

Hi Nick:

Thanks.....but, this requires one master/mistress helpfile (in your 
case, diagplots2.hlp), and then many "little" help files all doing the 
".h trick".
So, it is correct that there is only one help file to edit. I was hoping 
to have to do away with the "little" help files.  Anyway, the .h trick 
does the trick for me.
Best,
J.

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On 22.03.2013 20:44, Nick Cox wrote:
> No; precisely the opposite. You can do this. For example, look at the
> package -qpfit- on SSC. Most of the help files are just one-liners
> pointing to a master/mistress help file.
>
> Nick
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:40 PM, John Antonakis <John.Antonakis@unil.ch> wrote:
> > OK. Thus, it does not appear possible for us (outside of Stata) to have two
> > programs point to the same help file.
> >
> > At least
> >
> > .h program_name
> >
> > does the trick.
> >
> > Thanks everyone, Austin, Daniel, and Ken.
> >
> > Best,
> > J.
> >
> > __________________________________________
> >
> > John Antonakis
> > Professor of Organizational Behavior
> > Director, Ph.D. Program in Management
> >
> > Faculty of Business and Economics
> > University of Lausanne
> > Internef #618
> > CH-1015 Lausanne-Dorigny
> > Switzerland
> > Tel ++41 (0)21 692-3438
> > Fax ++41 (0)21 692-3305
> > http://www.hec.unil.ch/people/jantonakis
> >
> > Associate Editor
> > The Leadership Quarterly
> > __________________________________________
> >
> >
> > On 22.03.2013 20:28, khigbee@stata.com wrote:
> > > Daniel Klein <klein.daniel.81@gmail.com> is correct:
> > >
> > > > you can point to another help file simply saving the one line
> > > >
> > > > .h john
> > > >
> > > > (note the dot is not followed by a space) in the file johni.sthlp. If
> > > > you then type
> > > >
> > > > h johni
> > > >
> > > > the help file for -john- (john.sthlp) will pop up.
> > > This is how users add aliases for help files.  It is better than
> > > having several differently named files with identical content.
> > > Using ".h" you can avoid editing several files every time you
> > > want to make a change.
> > >
> > > Long ago, Stata used .h to create all of it's help aliases -- and
> > > the method still works and is available to you.  However, now the
> > > official Stata help files determine aliases from alias .maint
> > > files.  We did this because of the large number of aliases that
> > > we were wanting for the help system.
> > >
> > > The help alias files have names like xhelp_alias.maint, and
> > > there is one for each letter.  If curious, you can
> > >
> > >       . viewsource xhelp_alias.maint
> > >
> > > to see the alias file for the letter x, or
> > >
> > >       . viewsource bhelp_alias.maint
> > >
> > > to see the alias file for the letter b.  The files have two columns,
> > > the second column is the name of the help file to show when help is
> > > requested for the item in the first column.
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