Re: st: V.8 chokes on quotes

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 11:32 20/02/03 -0800, Glen R. Waddell wrote:
> I use Word as my text editor.  The "smart quotes" that Word applies have
> not given me trouble in earlier versions, but I have found that v.8
> chokes on them, yielding an invalid syntax error.
>
> Any ideas?
The best idea is to start using a better text editor. In Stata, type

findit texteditors

to find out about a selection of text editors you might use instead, their 
relative pros and cons, and why they are all better than Word. (In 
particular, they do not apply so-called "smart quotes".)

I hope this helps.

Roger


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