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There are at least three answers here.
First, the fancy formatting you refer
to is SMCL and is responsible for much of
the more attractive aspects of Stata output
and help files. What's more, there are very
good reasons why Stata can't use other formats
such as HTML as a universal standard for its
own documents. But no one intends that raw
SMCL is very readable, any more or less than
raw HTML or TeX.
Second, converting a help file from SMCL
to HTML is possible with -log2html-, after
which it's between you and whatever you would
like to use to print HTML.
Third, I have had good results, so long as I
resize the help window to be narrow enough,
with copying and pasting to other applications,
although all special formatting is lost.
Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
Lim, Nelson
> This is too basic that I am embarrassed to ask.
>
> I have been trying to print help files come with ado files I got from
> SSC. Most recently, -hlm- and -stylerules-. When I print using "print
> view," sentences are always cut at the right. I tried everything.
>
> In the past, I used to avoid this problem by printing help
> files as text
> files. But fancy formatting that these new help files are
> using makes it
> impossible to read.
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