Adam Jacobs had a nice talk at the London meeting on using Open
Document Format xml for reports. See
http://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/usug09/06.html. Maybe get in touch with
him.
ben
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Eric Booth <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Have you tried -rtfutil- (from SSC) ?
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> On Jan 11, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Jeph Herrin wrote:
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>> I am trying to use Stata to generate reports, each of which
>> contains tables and graphs relevant to one of many units
>> (here, hospitals).
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>> In the past I have done this one of two ways. One is
>> to use Stata to create a CSV table of results, and
>> then a word processing program (eg Word) to "merge"
>> each row of the table into a template to create the reports.
>> This makes nice reports, but runs into trouble if some
>> units have exceptions, and requires then converting all
>> the (eg) Word files to PDF etc etc.
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>> So when suitable I use -file- to write text, including SMCL
>> tags, to a text file, and then -translate- to filter the
>> .smcl files into postscript files. This works fairly well
>> if there are only tables/text (no graphs), and if Courier
>> is acceptable. What I would like to do is
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>> 1) Embed some graph format in smcl so that it is converted or
>> streamed into the postscript file (or linked into the postscript
>> so it is embedded in a final PDF file)?
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>> 2) Tag the SMCL in such a way that -smcl2ps- uses other, proportional
>> fonts for tagged text?
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>> Anyone have any experience or insight into how to solve either
>> problem? I think I have to solve both or else use the MS Word
>> method for this project.
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>> I'll just add that this remains one of Stata's larger shortcomings
>> relative to other statistical packages, I work with analysts who
>> use **S for everything they do only because it gives pretty output
>> when they need it.
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>> thanks,
>> Jeph
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