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Re: st: abbrivation in ado-file and equation in help file?


From   Richard Williams <[email protected]>
To   [email protected], [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: abbrivation in ado-file and equation in help file?
Date   Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:37:17 -0500

At 09:49 AM 12/20/2012, Nick Cox wrote:
If you want to allow say

myprogram

to be abbreviatable as

myprog

you would need to release two or more ado files, In particular,
myprog.ado could contain in its entirety

program myprog
            myprogram `0'
end

If you want to allow -myprogra-, -myprogr- as well each of those
abbreviations requires a separate .ado file too.

Equations can be indicated using text or SMCL directives. You would
need to provide a link to files containing anything else. For example,
Stata doesn't support TeX ir HTML mark-up in help files.

Nick

As a sidelight, that isn't enough if you want your program to work with prefix commands like svy and by. You can probably make it work, but it may just be better to give your program a shorter name in the first place.


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