Re: st: Stata resolution

[Nick Winter <nwinter@virginia.edu>]

To follow up on this point -- were Statacorp to add an {img source=} tag 
to SMCL, that is a step toward making SMCL into a full-fledged output 
management system.  If they do that, wouldn't font control be nice? 
Presentation-quality tables?  Etc.

As it stands Statacorp seems happy to leave the development of that sort 
of output assembly routine to user-programmers, with the (IMO) small 
exception of -estimates table-.

My point is that while adding an {img} tag to SMCL might not be that 
hard, it likely wouldn't satisfy without the development of a much 
broader, much more general output system.

- nick

Nick Cox wrote:
> I don't think so. SMCL is specifically designed for line-by-line
> processing and line-by-line output. That's hardly consistent with "show
> an image at this point". Remember, SMCL is a format for Stata output as
> well as for Stata help files. 
>
> You, I and everyone might all agree that SMCL files would look much
> better with embedded images, but they wouldn't then be SMCL. 
>
> Nick 
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 
>
> Sergiy Radyakin
>
> Having images in the help files was a demanded feature already (in the
> context of the log files, where people wanted to also save graphs in the
> log file). A simple equivalent of the <IMG src="..."> tag for SMCL could
> very much solve the problem and maintain compatibility with the current
> situation. And even better if it was implemented not only in the viewer,
> but also in the output window.
>
>
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