Thanks to Friedrich Huebler for alerting us all to this awkward feature of
-listtex- (at least under Windows), and thanks to Gerhard Schoen for
proposing a partial fix.
I too would like to know the root cause of the problem. -listtex- uses the
-file- command of Stata, together with the -macval()- macro function, to
output the headlines and footlines provided by the user. The mutilation of
long lines described by Friedrich is clearly taking place on a level beyond
the control of -listtex-. I do not know whether the problem is a bug in the
Stata -file- command or an "issue" in the Microsoft operating system, and
would try to run Friedrich's sample code on a non-Microsoft operating
system if only I had access to one.
Best wishes
Roger
At 07:21 22/03/2005, Gerhard Schoen wrote:
Am 21 Mar 2005 um 12:54, Friedrich Huebler schrieb:
> The solution is of course to abbreviate the variable labels. I am
> writing to the list in the hope that someone can explain this limit
> and describe a way around it. Thank you.
You can divide the head of listtex into several lines
starting and ending with a quotation mark.
Try:
#delimit ;
listtex make-foreign using "table.txt",
head("`lab1'`tab'`lab2'`tab'`lab3'`tab'"
"`lab4'`tab'`lab5'`tab'`lab6'`tab'"
"`lab7'`tab'`lab8'`tab'`lab9'`tab'"
"`lab10'`tab'`lab11'`tab'`lab12'")
rstyle(tabdelim) replace ;
#delimit cr
Gerhard Sch�n
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