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Re: st: RE: Truncation of words in smcl help files
Scott,
Many thanks for this. It works fine and resolves the issue for the moment.
It is the solution I've used in the past. I had hoped to find another
way because cutting and pasting "hard-wrap" (as opposed to "soft-wrap"
paragraphs) can be a pain.
It seems to me that smcl's s paragraph mode (as opposed to line mode)
must still need to process strings (hence the 244 word limit), rather
than unlimited-length paragraphs. I would have thought smcl might have
behaved like html (which does not suffer from the 244 word limit).
Ian
Scott Merryman wrote:
Ian,
I am not sure why, but if you add a carriage return after the second
sentence (or after every sentence) the problem goes away.
----------foo.hlp-----
{smcl}
{phang}
carriage return at end of paragraph
{phang}
{opt using} is not an option but is required, and indicates the filename for
the output. Some applications (particularly MS Excel) `lock' files when
they're open. This means you cannot write to these files and you receive an
error message, warning you to check if the file is already open in another
application.
{phang}
carriage return after each sentence
{phang}
{opt using} is not an option but is required, and indicates the filename for
the output.
Some applications (particularly MS Excel) `lock' files when they're open.
This means you cannot write to these files and you receive an error message,
warning you to check if the file is already open in another application.
-------------------------
The results:
carriage return at end of paragraph
using is not an option but is required, and indicates the filename for
the output. Some applications (particularly MS Excel) `lock' files
when they're open. This means you cannot write to these files and
you receive an error message, warnin check if the file is already
open in another application.
carriage return after each sentence
using is not an option but is required, and indicates the filename for
the output. Some applications (particularly MS Excel) `lock' files
when they're open. This means you cannot write to these files and
you receive an error message, warning you to check if the file is
already open in another application.
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Watson
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 11:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Truncation of words in smcl help files
Dear Statalisters
I'm currently rewriting a smcl help file and becoming frustrated at the
tendency of smcl to arbitrarily truncate words. I have encountered this
problem before, but have ignored it. I've now decided I should try to
track down the cause of the problem.
The only hint I can find is that it often coincides with the 244th or
246th character in a paragraph (suspiciously the same as the limit for
strings).
Here is one example:
smcl code:
{smcl}
{phang}
{opt using} is not an option but is required, and indicates the filename
for the output. Some applications (particularly MS Excel) `lock' files
when they're open. This means you cannot write to these files and you
receive an error message, warning you to check if the file is already
open in another application.
and here is what displays in the viewer (with "warning you to" truncated):
using is not an option but is required, and indicates the filename for
the output. Some applications (particularly MS Excel) `lock' files when
they're open. This means you cannot write to these files and you receive
an error message, warnin check if the file is already open in another
application.
This occurs when in paragraph mode, rather than line mode, so I can't
see how the string limit should apply. Am I missing something simple?
Rereading the manual and checking the FAQs has not turned up any clues.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Ian Watson
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