RE: st: Table Export of suffix / index

["Lovisa Persson" <lovisa.persson@nek.uu.se>]

Hello,

In esttab I write:   coeflabels(income "$\lambda$") and then the latex table
shows the greek lamba letter nicely.

In estout I write:   label varlabels(income "$\lambda$") and it also works
nicely!

Lovisa

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Aljar Meesters
Sent: den 10 januari 2013 15:32
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: Table Export of suffix / index

Since Stata treats $ as a global macro reference, you have to escape it with
\.
This should work (at least in Stata 11.2) label var x "\$CO_2\$"
Best,

Aljar


2013/1/10 Meulemann  Max <mmeulemann@ethz.ch>:
> That is what I am trying to label my variable so that Latex would 
> understand it as a math environment input
>
> Therefore I tried label var x $CO_2$ which would give the proper chemical
notation and not an italic CO, I just checked.
>
> I will consider the manual -estout- way, but it would just be nice to 
> find way to solve it directly with labelling, so that I don't have to 
> adapt every -estout command individually
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu 
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Nick Cox
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2013 15:19
> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Betreff: Re: st: Table Export of suffix / index
>
> You have to use Stata to write LaTeX code, which is then interpreted
externally. Stata does not interpret LaTeX mark-up internally. Note in
particular that the $ sign is used in Stata in global macro references (when
it is not taken literally as a dollar sign). So using $ $ or $$ $$ to
indicate math[s] would be difficult at best in Stata.
>
> By the way, $CO_2$ in LaTeX gives you italic "CO", which is not standard
for chemical notation.
>
> Nick
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Meulemann  Max <mmeulemann@ethz.ch>
wrote:
>> Im using Stata 12. I d like to directly export variables label names like
CO_2 or x^2 so that Latex will display them properly when I tell tabout,
sutex or estout to use labels.
>>
>> I tried several version like
>>
>> label var x "$CO_2$"
>> or
>> label var x "\[CO_2\]
>>
>> but I either just get a $ or $\backslash$
>>
>> Is there a way to label the variable properly that latex understands it.
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