Re: st: How to get -project- to log in text instead of smcl.

[Robert Picard <picard@netbox.com>]

This has been discussed previously on statalist, with a thread starting with:

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2013-08/msg00492.html

Generally, I feel that text formatted log files lose visual
information and functionality (hyperlinks) compared to smcl. At any
time, -translate- can be used to convert from smcl to text (or PDF) so
I don't quite understand the need for text log files.

One of the reasons why -project- ignores the -set logtype- is that,
like globals, its scope extends beyond the currently running do-file.
What happens if you change the log format interactively; does that
invalidate the whole build? What happens if you include a -set
logtype- within a do-file; is -project- supposed to remember the
setting if the do-file is skipped in a subsequent build?

On the other hand, I suppose there could be an overall setting for
each project. I'll put this on my list of things to think about.

Robert

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez
<jorge_perez@brown.edu> wrote:
> I have been using the user written command -project- by Robert Picard,
> version 1.2.0 on Stata 13.1.
>
> Is there a way to make project produce log files in .txt extension
> instead of the default smcl? -project- seems to override Stata's -set
> logfile- settings.
>
> Thanks!
> --------------------------------------------
> Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez
> Graduate Student
> Department of Economics
> Brown University
>
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