st: span in estout

[Richard Palmer-Jones <rpjstatalist@googlemail.com>]

Dear Readers

You can see where I'm coming from I am sure.

I have a further question about estout:

Can you span columns if you are not using tex? I can span using .tex
following the model at
http://repec.org/bocode/e/estout/advanced.html#advanced006

preserve
sysuse auto
eststo: quietly reg weight mpg
eststo: quietly reg weight mpg foreign
eststo: quietly reg price weight mpg
eststo: quietly reg price weight mpg foreign
esttab using example.tex, booktabs label            ///
    mgroups(A B, pattern(1 0 1 0)                   ///
        prefix(\multicolumn{@span}{c}{) suffix(})   ///
        span erepeat(\cmidrule(lr){@span}))         ///
    alignment(D{.}{.}{-1}) page(dcolumn) nonumber
eststo clear
retore


and then compiling the .tex producing a fine table (.pdf in my case).

But how do I do this into a .txt or .tab file to load into MS Word or some such?

Thanks

Ricahrd
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