Hi, maybe the follwing is known to many of you, but I did not know and
I didn't find anything in the FAQ or the Statalist Archive. So I
thought it would be worthwhile to share this
When including Stata output in a LaTeX presentation (using -sjlog- and
-sjlatex-, type -findit sjlog-, -findit sjlatex-, and e.g. the
"beamer" class) it is often desirable to scale the output a bit so
that it fits the slide.* Setting the font does not help.
After fiddling around a little I found a solution that works quite
well: Use the "\scalebox" command from the "graphicx" package (which
is automatically loaded in beamer).
Example:
\scalebox{0.7}{\begin{minipage}{\hsize}
\begin{stlog}
\input{whatever.log.tex}
\end{stlog}
\end{minipage}}
The minipage seems to be necessary (although there may also be other
ways to make \scalebox work with stlog).
To simplify, you can definde a command in the preample of the LaTeX
document as follows:
---begin of example file---
\documentclass{beamer}
[...]
\usepackage{stata}
\def\stlogscaled#1#2{\scalebox{#1}{\begin{minipage}{\hsize}
\begin{stlog}
\input{#2.log.tex}
\end{stlog}
\end{minipage}}}
[...]
\begin{document}
[...]
\stlogscaled{0.7}{whatever}
[...]
\end{document}
---end of example file---
Works perfect for me.
ben
* The procedure to include Stata output in a LaTeX document is to save
the output using the -sjlog- command and then, in LaTeX, include the
output using the "stlog" environment. That is, in Stata type
. sjlog using whatever, replace
. ...
. sjlog close, replace
and then in the preamble of the LaTeX file load the stata package
\usepackage{stata}
and in the body of the text type
\begin{stlog}
\input{whatever.log.tex}
\end{stlog}
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
