Thanks to Kit for the info. What we need now (as Maarten says, and in case any StataCorp people are listening) is a way to translate a group of .sthlp files to .html, translating the .smcl hyperrefs to corresponding .html hyperrefs. That would be particularly helpful for people like me, who typically document a large comprehensive package with a whole tree of .sthlp files referring to each other. I do not know how feasible this is.
Roger
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Roger said
This is very impressive. Are there any plans to distribute a
conversion package from .sthlp to .html on SSC? (Or even in official
Stata, in case any StataCorp people are listening?)
You don't need one. Just do
log html foo.sthlp foo.html
which is all that my routine is doing in processing these files. This
is the same trick used by -log2html-, which has been around for quite
a while.
Here is a Mata function that converts all .hlp and .sthlp in the
current working directory:
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version 10.1
mata:
void function genhlpfiles()
{
helpfiles = dir(".","files","*.*hlp")
if (rows(helpfiles) > 0) {
helpnames = substr(helpfiles, 1,
(strpos(helpfiles,".") :- 1))
for(i=1; i<=rows(helpfiles); i++) {
cmd = "log html "+helpfiles[i]+" "+helpnames[i]+".html,
replace"
cmd
stata(cmd)
}
}
}
end
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