Re: st: V.8 chokes on quotes

[Devra Golbe <Devra.Golbe@hunter.cuny.edu>]

Yes-- don't use Word, or any word processor, as a text editor.  See 
http://repec.org/docs/textEditors.html for some reasons why doing so is a 
bad idea, and for reviews of text editors that other Stata users find useful.

Devra


At 11:32 AM 2/20/03 -0800 Glen 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?
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