Re: st: texdoc

[Michael Norman Mitchell <Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com>]

Dear David

  Thanks for posting this to bring this to our (and my) attention. I 
always believe very strongly in using this kind of "weaving" approach 
and find it very efficient. Are you (or is anyone on the Statalist) 
aware of a tool similar to this that weaves comments, commands, output, 
and graphs into a Word document? At my work, we are in constant need of 
creating such integrated outputs and the standard format is a Word document.

Many thanks,

Michael N. Mitchell
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http://www.MichaelNormanMitchell.com

On 2010-05-16 9.14 PM, Airey, David C wrote:
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> I just wanted to remind users about Ben Jann's program "texdoc" as one solution for combining Stata results and graphs with documentation, in a "weaving" fashion, similar to R and Sweave. It works well with relatively simple documents one might produce for a course.
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> In Ben's program, you basically type in your .do file:
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> texdoc init myfile, replace
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> and then you enclose blocks of LaTeX in your .do file between
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> /*tex
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> ...stuff like LaTeX preamble, graphics, body text, etc.
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> tex*/
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> and enclose blocks of Stata commands with
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> texdoc stlog
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> ...
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> texdoc stlog close
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> and end with
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> texdoc close
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> With that structure in your .do file, you type,
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> texdoc myfile.do, replace
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> to create all the .tex files and include files. Then you LaTeX the .tex file to produce a very pretty PDF.
>
> You also have to download sjlatex and if on a mac, install sjlatex files here:
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> ~/YourUserFolder/Library/texmf/tex/latex/sjlatex/
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> and also if you are on a mac, a very easy MacTeX installation is available.
>
> -Dave
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