Re: st: SMCL not showing properly

[Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez <perez.jorge@ur.edu.co>]

I just figured this out. I was putting all my {p} statements in a
single line, since I was using an editor with Word-Wrapping. If you
split your {p} statements in several lines, the issue disappears.

It is an annoying limitation of SMCL, though.
_______________________
Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez



On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Perez Perez Jorge Eduardo
<perez.jorge@ur.edu.co> wrote:
> Dear Statalist
> I am writing a help file to a user written program in SMCL, using
> Stata 11 in Windows XP. A piece of my help file is not showing
> properly in the Stata Help Viewer. Below I reproduce the relevant
> piece that is not showing properly:
>
> {smcl}
> {pstd}{cmd:fdfilter} applies the frequency domain filter of Corbae and
> Ouliaris (2002,2006) to one or more time series in {it:varlist}.
> Series can be stationary, or can have a unit root. It tends to produce
> output similar to the Baxter-King (1999) filter, though without the
> end-point issue (it estimates end-points directlty). The filtered
> series and smoothed series are placed in new variables, specified with
> the {cmd:stub()} option. The smoothed variables are identified by
> "_sm" in their names. The {cmd:s()} and {cmd:e()} arguments can either
> specify the minimum period of oscillation and maximum period of
> oscillation of the desired component of the time series, with 2 <
> {it:s} < {it:e} < infinity, or the desired frecuencies, with 0 <
> {it:s} < {it:e} <= 1. {cmd:fdfilter} does not allow gaps within the
> observations of a time series.
>
> When I save this in a .hlp file (or .sthlp file) and display it in Stata, I get:
>
> fdfilter applies the frequency domain filter of Corbae and Ouliaris
> (2002,2006) to
>    one or more time series in varlist. Series can be stationary, or
> can have a unit
>    root. It tends to produce output similar to the Baxter-King (1999
> , though without
>    the end-point issue (it estimates end-points directlty). The
> filtered series and
>    smoothed series are placed in new variables, specified with the
> stub() option. The
>    smoothed variables are identified by "_sm" in their names.  :s()} and e()
>    arguments can either specify the minimum period of oscillation and
> maximum period
>    of oscillation of the desired component of the time series, with 2 < s < e <
>    infinity, or the desired frecuencies, with 0 < s < { 1. fdfilter
> does not allow
>    gaps within the observations of a time series.
>
> Notice the missing closing parenthesis after Baxter-King(1999, and the
> missing e and the brace in the penultimate line.
>
> I reproduced this error in another computer running Stata 11 on Windows 7.
>
> Can anyone reproduce this error? Any ideas on what might be causing
> it? I have been unable to find an error in the SMCL code.
>
> Thank you.
>
> _______________________
> Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez
>
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