Re: Antwort: st: passing single left-quotes to latex via -texdoc-

[Eric Booth <ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu>]

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Thanks, Johannes.  

I did try to escape the macro with the backslash (trying it in several places around both the first and second left-quotes) before posting, but I never got it to work; now that I try it again it works just as your example ( and mine apparently:] ) shows.  No doubt, some typo got the best of me.

Best, 

Eric

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On Feb 3, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Johannes Geyer wrote:

> I wrote:
> 
> "a) you can escape the local by escaping the first left-single-quote [this, I do not understand but it works fine]"
> 
> ...of course...we have to escape the macro, e.g.:
> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/backslash.html
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> johannes
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> p.s.:
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-09/msg01329.html ;)
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> *********************************************
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> loc mymacro   "something here."
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> /* your working directory */
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> cd c:\temp\
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> texdoc init dontknow, replace
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> tex \documentclass[12pt]{article}
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> tex \usepackage{times,graphicx,fancyhdr,lastpage,ulem,amsmath}
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> tex \begin{document}
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> tex ``don't know `mymacro'"  %doesnt work
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> tex
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> tex "``"don't know `mymacro'"  %%doesnt work
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> tex
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> tex ``don`t know `mymacro'"    %% this _works_ but w/o apostrophe
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> tex `\`don't know `mymacro'"    %% this works
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> tex ``don`=char(39)'t know `mymacro'"    %% and this works
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> tex \end{document}
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> texdoc close
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> *************** fin *********************
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> best
> 
> johannes
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> Johannes Geyer
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> Von: Eric Booth <ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu>
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> Gesendet von: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
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> Datum: 03.02.2011 06:07PM
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> Thema: st: passing single left-quotes to latex via -texdoc-
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> *!  apologies if this comes through twice, I forgot to change the original msg to 'plain text' and I've waited a while and it hasn't come through yet
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> I'm using Ben Jann's -texdoc- (from SSC, -findit texdoc-) using Mac OSX 10.6 &/or Windows 7, Stata 11 MP to create a latex document.
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> When sending a contraction (like "don't") to the latex document from the do-file via the -tex- command, I am having trouble because Stata interprets the single left-quote and the single right-quote as a local macro before it's sent to latex (.tex file) for processing.
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> So, if I want the following the typeset latex document to show:
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> "don't know something."
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> then I would normally put this into the latex .tex document:
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> ``don't know something."
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> with 2 single left-quotes in front of the word "don't"; however Stata is trying to interpret one of those with as a local macro ending in the apostrophe in the word "don't."
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> I tried escape characters and double quoting the left-quotes and right-quotes, but I cannot get it to pass the text to latex properly (No, I cannot change the language to "do not.")   I can get it to pass the two left-quotes properly if I change the apostrophe in "don't" to a left-quote as well, but this is not ideal (see the 3rd example below.)
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> The code below shows a self-contained example of what I'm doing.
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> I included an extra macro (called mymacro) to show that complicating this quotes/double quotes set up are many local macros spread throughout these sentences, which add more sets of left and right quotes to deal with.
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> The part at the bottom can be discarded, but if you've got latex installed (I use miktex on windows and mactex on mac), this should process/typeset the document and allow you to see the interpreted output without having to navigate to the files -- it may not work with all configurations.
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> *-------------------------------------------------------*  Begin
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> clear
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> pwd   //note: here's where the files will be stored
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> loc mymacro   "something here."
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> *****texdoc
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> texdoc init dontknow, replace
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> tex \documentclass[12pt]{article}
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> tex \usepackage{times,graphicx,fancyhdr,lastpage,ulem,amsmath}
> 
> tex \begin{document}
> 
> tex ``don't know `mymacro'"  %doesnt work
> 
> tex
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> tex "``"don't know `mymacro'"  %%doesnt work
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> tex
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> tex ``don`t know `mymacro'"    %% this _works_ but w/o apostrophe
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> tex \end{document}
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> texdoc close
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> *-------------------------------------------------------*
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> if "`c(os)'" == "Windows"{
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> cap rm "dontknow.pdf"
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> !pdflatex "dontknow.tex"
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> di as smcl `"CLICK TO OPEN: {browse `"dontknow.pdf"'}"'
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> }
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> if "`c(os)'" == "MacOSX" {
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> **no, pdflatex is not in my $PATH for some local configuration reasons**
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> !/usr/texbin/pdflatex  "dontknow.tex"  "dontknow"
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> !open "dontknow.pdf"
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> di as smcl `"CLICK TO OPEN: {browse `"dontknow.pdf"'}"'
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> }
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> *-------------------------------------------------------*  End
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> 
> I've searched several latex help pages, but this really is a issue that happens on the Stata-side of things (before it's sent to the .tex file) so I'm hoping others here might have come across this issue and found a better solution than using a single left-quote in place of the apostrophe.
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> Thanks for any suggestions.
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> - Eric
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