I too would love to see the manuals in PDF form, since I also often
use my laptop. I suspect that the reason for the unavailability of
the manuals in this form is that it would cut significantly into the
sales of the (paper) manuals? Thus, even though we are probably back
to talking about pricing (!) I would like to hear from Stata Corp on
this.
m.p.
Richard Sperling wrote:
>
> On Saturday 21 December 2002 20:51, Stephen Rothenberg wrote:
>
> [stuff deleted]
>
> > Has StataCorp given any thought to making the Stata Manuals available as
> > PDF or Postscript files, either available from the distribution CD or as a
> > download for registered users who have bought the paper manuals? Many
> > software companies already do this. It would be a boon to traveling
> > analysts.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but this should be straightforward to accomplish
> since the manuals are typeset in TeX. Wouldn't it merely be a matter of
> running the source for the manuals through pdfTeX?
> --
> Richard
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