Re: RE : RE : st: Super-Columns with Esttab

[WEBER Sylvain <sylvain.weber@unine.ch>]

As you said, solving this (minor) issue is probably not worth more effort. Let's keep the "afterwards manual merge" solution for the moment!
Thanks again. 

Sylvain 

Le 6 déc. 2012 à 14:03, "Rebecca Pope" <rebecca.a.pope@gmail.com> a écrit :

> Okay, to the scalability of this kind of mess:
> "{\trowd\trgaph108\trleft-108\clbrdrt\brdrw10\brdrs\cellx1548\clmgf\clbrdrt\brdrw10\brdrs\cellx3564\clmrg\clbrdrt\brdrw10\brdrs\cellx5580\clmgf\clbrdrt\brdrw10\brdrs\cellx7596\clmrg\clbrdrt\brdrw10\brdrs\cellx9612\pard\intbl\ql{}\cell\pard\intbl\qc{Domestic}\cell\pard\intbl\qc{}\cell\pard\intbl\qc{Foreign}\cell\pard\intbl\qc{}\cell\row}"
> 
> Here are my first thoughts. Some of this may miss the mark, but
> hopefully it helps.
> Obviously, it is best to have Stata generate the -prehead()- text. I
> certainly don't trust myself to type it accurately every time. So,
> first step, pattern identification:
> The first part "{\trowd\trgaph108\trleft-108" and last part "\row}"
> are constant, no matter how many dependent variables & models you
> have.
> 
> "\clbrdrt\brdrw10\brdrs\cellxN" is needed for each cell. N is the
> right boundary of the cell. See
> http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm as posted by Sylvain. N is
> measured in twips. It is somewhat arbitrary how this is established.
> E.g. the -rtfutil- package (Newson, 2012 - see below) lets you specify
> how wide you want the columns to be. It looks like -estout- determines
> it from the variable widths (first column) and then dividing the rest
> of the space by the number of models. I can't figure out what the
> total number twips in width is in the code, but I'm sure it's there
> since the cells are defined. If our -prehead()- text is going to
> result in something that looks decent with the rest of -esttab-
> output, we need use -estout-'s method. I think the key is in the part
> of the code "MakeRtfRowdefs", but I'd need to study it more to figure
> it out.
> 
> If we take -estout, pattern()- as a model then the pattern changes to
> \clmgf\clbrdrt\brdrw10\brdrs\cellxN if 1
> \clmrg\clbrdrt\brdrw10\brdrs\cellxN if 0
> 
> Once all of the cells are defined, we start filling them in.
> First column:  \pard\intbl\ql{}\cell
> Pattern 1 column: pard\intbl\qc{varlabel}\cell
> Pattern 0 column: \pard\intbl\qc{}\cell
> 
> Sylvain, since you mostly use TeX, I'm going to guess that this is not
> a high priority for you. I see this as an interesting thought
> experiment, but perhaps beyond the level of effort merited to come up
> with a command to create something that just gets passed to -esttab-
> or -estout-, particularly when it is relatively easy to merge the
> cells in Word.
> Naturally though, if Ben Jann sees this post I'd be interested in
> knowing how much I would have to bribe him to just slightly modify
> -estout- and make our lives a bit easier. ;-)
> 
> Newson, R. B. (2012) "From resultssets to resultstables in Stata." The
> Stata Journal. 12(2); 191-213.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rebecca
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Rebecca Pope <rebecca.a.pope@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sylvain wrote:
>> <snip>
>> I have tried something with -prehead()- and -posthead()- instead. The
>> following code gives a table quite close to what we are looking for:
>> 
>> esttab dom1 dom2 for1 for2 using test.rtf, append nomtitles nonumber
>> posthead("{\trowd\trgaph108\trleft-108\clbrdrt\brdrw10\brdrs\cellx1548\clmgf\clbrdrt\brdrw10\brdrs\cellx3564\clmrg\clbrdrt\brdrw10\brdrs\cellx5580\clmgf\clbrdrt\brdrw10\brdrs\cellx7596\clmrg\clbrdrt\brdrw10\brdrs\cellx9612\pard\intbl\ql{}\cell\pard\intbl\qc{Domestic}\cell\pard\intbl\qc{}\cell\pard\intbl\qc{Foreign}\cell\pard\intbl\qc{}\cell\row}")
>> 
>> Ideally, we would want to use -prehead()- instead of -posthead()- and
>> remove the -nonumber- option so as to have the columns numbered below
>> the super-columns "Domestic" and "Foreign". However, that corrupts the
>> rtf file... (some lines of code are missing at the beginning of the
>> file.)
>> <snip>
>> 
>> As I understand the -esttab- .ado file, the table is automatically
>> defined in "head". However, since the file is written in the order
>> "prehead", "head", and "posthead", if you supply text in -prehead()-,
>> you also need to give a table definition. The plot thickens...
>> 
>> -prehead()- as specified is already unweildy, so let's start breaking it up.
>> local tabdef "{\rtf1\ansi\deff0 {\fonttbl{\f0\fnil Times New
>> Roman;}}{\footer\pard\qc\plain\f0\fs24\chpgn\par}"
>> local trowd "{\trowd\trgaph108\trleft-108"
>> local brdrs "\clbrdrt\brdrw10\brdrs"
>> local par "\pard\intbl"
>> 
>> esttab dom1 dom2 for1 for2 using test.rtf, replace nomtitles ///
>> prehead("`tabdef'`trowd'`brdrs'\cellx1548\clmgf`brdrs'\cellx3564\clmrg`brdrs'\cellx5580\clmgf`brdrs'\cellx7596\clmrg`brdrs'\cellx9612`par'\ql{}\cell`par'\qc{Domestic}\cell`par'\qc{}\cell`par'\qc{Foreign}\cell`par'\qc{}\cell\row}")
>> 
>> This gets us closer. There are two problems from my perspective. The
>> first, as already noted, is that scalability quickly becomes an issue.
>> The second is aesthetic - there is a border between the row with the
>> supercolumn titles and the row of model numbers.
>> 
>> I think the border is beyond our control. I'll address scaling in another post.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Rebecca
>> 
>> 
>> <snip>
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