It's still true that SMCL is essentially a line-by-line
processor. It has to be because (a) SMCL has no concept
of an end of document, unlike HTML; (b) Stata's basic output mode is
a line at a time.
If HTML had been fine for Stata purposes,
then it would have been perverse of StataCorp to invent SMCL,
as HTML was already (1) well-known (2) cross-platform (3) non-proprietary
(4) excellent, but the condition isn't true.
Incidentally, I remember that I wanted to insert the reference
M{c o:}bius, August Ferdinand. 1827.
{it:Der barycentrische Calcul: ein neues H{c u:}lfsmittel zur
analytischen Behandlung der Geometrie dargestellt und insbesondere
auf die Bildung neuer Classen von Aufgaben und die Entwicklung
mehrerer Eigenschaften der Kegelschnitte.}
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth. [1790{c -}1868]
into my triplot.hlp, all on one line, but SMCL wouldn't play until
I split it into shorter lines. And I thought M{c o:}bius would be bound
to fit on a single line, being a one-sided person.
Nick
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Ian Watson
> Sent: 01 December 2006 14:54
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: 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.
> >
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