Re: st: estabb and rtfutil combination.

["Roger B. Newson" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

In reply to Amadou's first query, I do not know how to merge (or 
concatenate) 2 .rtf files. The problem there is that the 2 .rtf files 
may have different character set declarations, default font 
declarations, font tables, color tables, stylesheets, info groups, 
preliminary formatting commands, headers and/or footers, and any 
proposed concatenation algorithm would have to combine them sensibly. 
However, I am working on the -rtfappend- module for -rtfutil- as I 
speak, and this should make life easier, especially for users who want 
to use both -rtfutil- and -estout-.

In reply to Amadou's second query, I have not produced any tutorials on 
-listtab- and -rtfutil-. However, -listtab- and -rtfutil- (and 
-sdecode-) are discussed at length in Newson (2012). If Amadou wants to 
alternate between landscape and portrait orientation in a single .rtf 
document, then the -rtfsect- module of -rtfutil- allows the user to do 
this by inserting section breaks.

In reply to Amadou's third query, I still haven't found out how to 
override the default resizing of linked graphs in a .rtf document. (I 
don't know if anybody else has.)

I hope this helps.

Best wishes

Roger

References

Newson RB. From resultssets to resultstables in Stata. The Stata Journal 
2012; 12(2): 191–213.

Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
Royal Brompton Campus
Room 33, Emmanuel Kaye Building
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Email: r.newson@imperial.ac.uk
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Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution.

On 13/02/2013 07:45, Amadou DIALLO wrote:
> Dear Roger,
>
> Many thanks. This is indeed a partial solution to my problem and
> definitely, a rtfappend command is most needed and welcome. I wish
> this could be released soon!
>
> I also have a couple of questions, to try to find a workaround:
>
> - do you know how to merge 2 rtf files? I googled but cannot find any
> proper answer and I don't how to take advantage of the rtf mail merge
> tools.
>
> - do you have any tutorial on using rtfutil/listtab with tables, as
> the ones available for estout and esttab? The tables I produced using
> listtab are messy and the /landscape option I am inserting in my rtf
> code is not allowing even to view them in landscape format. The book
> by Sean Burke that I bought warned against producing tables in rtf but
> is not indeed providing detailed examples, so if anyone can point me
> to a good tutorial, that is most welcome.
>
> - is there any way to resize the graphs I am inserting? I know there
> have been some discussions around this topic, but am wondering if any
> progress has been made on it.
>
> Nonetheless, again thank you for producing rtfutil. It saves me a lot
> of time in producing standardized reports for my department.
>
> Warmest regards.
>
> Bachir.
>
> 2013/2/12, Roger B. Newson <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>:
> > I think the answer is to use -rtfclose- before -esttab-. The -esttab-
> > command is designed to append tables to intact .rtf files that have
> > already been closed. So, in your case, you can write a program like this
> > one:
> >
> > **** BEGINNING OF CODE - CUT HERE
> > clear;
> > sysuse auto;
> > tempname handle;
> > rtfopen `handle' using "esttabrtfopenexample.rtf", replace;
> > file write `handle' _n "{\line}";
> > file write `handle' _n "{\header\pard\sl360\slmult1\qr\plain\f0\chpgn
> >     {\i 	\fs20 Auto data analysis} \par}";
> > eststo tabl: estpost ta rep for;
> > rtfclose `handle';
> > esttab tabl using  "esttabrtfopenexample.rtf" , cell(colpct(fmt(2)))
> >    label noobs varwidth(10) modelwidth(8) addnote("Source: Author")
> >    append;
> > **** END OF CODE - CUT HERE
> >
> > I don't know a way of inserting multiple -esttab- tables into a document
> > produced by -rtfopen-. Perhaps I will add a -rtfappend- command to
> > -rtfutil-.
> >
> > I hope this helps.
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Roger
> >
> >
> > Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
> > Lecturer in Medical Statistics
> > Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
> > National Heart and Lung Institute
> > Imperial College London
> > Royal Brompton Campus
> > Room 33, Emmanuel Kaye Building
> > 1B Manresa Road
> > London SW3 6LR
> > UNITED KINGDOM
> > Tel: +44 (0)20 7352 8121 ext 3381
> > Fax: +44 (0)20 7351 8322
> > Email: r.newson@imperial.ac.uk
> > Web page: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/
> > Departmental Web page:
> > http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/divisions/nhli/respiration/popgenetics/reph/
> >
> > Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution.
> >
> > On 10/02/2013 12:07, Amadou DIALLO wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm trying unsuccessfully to combine results produced by 2 different
> > > commands (rtfopen/file and estabb) into a single rtf file. The problem
> > > is that rtfutil is very good at handling text and graphs but I findit
> > > difficult to produce nice tables with desired formatting and
> > > characteristics attributes that I want them to have (which estabb does
> > > very well). Is there a workaround? See sample code below
> > > (esttabrtfopenexample produce blank page while esttabrtfopenexample2
> > > displays tables). Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > clear
> > > sysuse auto
> > > tempname handle
> > > rtfopen `handle' using "esttabrtfopenexample.rtf", replace
> > > file write `handle' _n "{\line}"
> > > file write `handle' _n "{\header\pard\sl360\slmult1\qr\plain\f0\chpgn
> > > {\i 	\fs20 Auto data analysis} \par}"
> > > eststo tabl: estpost ta rep for
> > > esttab tabl using  "esttabrtfopenexample.rtf" , cell(colpct(fmt(2)))
> > > label noobs varwidth(10) modelwidth(8) addnote("Source: Author")
> > > append
> > > esttab tabl using  "esttabrtfopenexample2.rtf" , cell(colpct(fmt(2)))
> > > label noobs varwidth(10) modelwidth(8) addnote("Source: Author")
> > > replace
> > > rtfclose `handle'
> > > exit
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