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st: RE: New version of -smileplot- on my website


From   Roger Newson <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: RE: New version of -smileplot- on my website
Date   Thu, 28 Nov 2002 14:30:00 +0000

At 13:59 28/11/02 +0000, Nick Cox wrote:

The particular issue is the correct
representation of Sidak's name, which
in TeX would be

\v{S}id\'ak

i.e. hacek(*) or circumflex accent sitting on the S and
an acute accent on the a.

Using the same configuration as Roger, except Windows
XP, and Stata's own fonts, I find that

. di "Sid{c a'}k"

shows the accent correctly in the Results window, but
the corresponding element in a .hlp does not
show correctly in the Help window (Viewer).
The hacek(*) I don't know how to do.

(*) This word should itself be accented.

In my Stata, the command

. di "Sid{c a'}k"

causes

Sid?k

to appear in the Results window. However, if I cut and paste this result from the Results window into an email, then it appears as

Sid�k

which appears as it should, at least in my email (I use Eudora Version 5.1 Light Mode). I don't know why this should be the case. However, I decided to make my .hlp robust to the possibility that users do not have a perfectly-working set of Stata windows, but do want to look up the References in my .hlp file.

Roger


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Roger Newson
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Department of Public Health Sciences
King's College London
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