As a new Stata user and a novice LaTeX user I have a related suggestion. I
have hunted down various utilities for producing a variety of output
suitable for inclusion in LaTeX documents, but the whole arrangement is less
than coherent. Combined with my amateur status, the prospect of publishing
the results of my work in Stata becomes overwhelming. A manual or book on
creating LaTeX documents with Stata output would be more than welcome.
My dream would be to have full support for LaTeX output and publication
included in Stata, fully documented and integrated into the menu and help
system. Second choice would be the availability of a book at the Stata
Bookstore that included a CD with a variety of ado and style files, examples
and other useful tidbits.
Am I the only one that feels overwhelmed? Is there wide support for this?
Personally, I would pay up to US$100 for a robust book with lots of goodies
on a CD.
The "whole arrangement" appears "less than coherent" because it has been
put together by multiple members of the Stata community, each acting alone.
However, in the absence of a book, you might like to read my own article
"Confidence intervals and p-values for delivery to the end user", if you
haven't already hunted it down. It is due shortly to appear in The Stata
Journal, but a pre-publication draft can be downloaded from my website at
