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| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: RE: Copying Stata code with line numbers |
| Date | Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:00:23 +0000 |
Charles didn't mention preservation of syntax highlighting as a requirement. As the problem posed is to copy into a word processor, I would be curious to know which word processors support Stata syntax highlighting. Nick On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com> wrote: > Nick, the syntax highlighting would be lost in the process. > > Charles, please, clarify whether the text of the program or the > decoration is of more importance. If you want to retain > coloring/highlighting, I guess you can only ask StataCorp to add this > feature since to the best of my knowledge there is none so far. > Alternatively you may want to play around and install something like > HTML-printer-driver (printer driver that prints to HTML files). There > were a multitude of those ~ 10 years ago, then open them in the word > processor. Not sure how successful would that be (xps produces a ton > of output from a 5 line test text). Then again you get a > platform-dependent solution and all that complexity. > > Regardless of the line numbers, being able to copy WITH SYNTAX > HIGHLIGHTING (in RTF perhaps) is a very desirable feature, at least > from my point of view. On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote: >> You could write a short program using -file- to read in each line of the file and write it out again with numeric prefixes. >> >> The idea of fixed lines is one that word processors resist, as I understand it, so I don't think programs fit easily into word processors, even for adding commentary. Actually, I don't think much fits easily into word processors, but set that aside. Charles Vellutini >> Would anyone know how to copy the content of an do-file (from Stata's standard do-file editor) and paste it in a word processor *with the line numbers*? >> >> We use Stata 12.1 on a Windows system. >> * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/