On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Michael Hills <mhills@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Inspired by a recent talk by Ben Jann to the London SUG I tried to use
> esttab to create latex under unix but found the lines in the table had
> \\\ at the end instead of \\. Thus
Are you using _exactly_ the same version of -esttab- on both *NIX and Windows?
The field end of line string for tex is set on line 217 (under *!
version 2.0.5 09mar2009 Ben Jann ) as...
local tex_end `"\\\"'
I suspect it is set as this because it has something to do with the
first '\' escaping the second '\'.
Quite why this is the case/required I'm not sure as the -man comments-
page only lists '//' and '///' as being comment delimiters.
I vaguely remember a similar problem with Roger Newson's -listtex-
which he resolved fairly quickly.
Sorry thats not much, but checking version should be a start to see
why there are differences.
Neil
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