Re: st: estabb and rtfutil combination.

[Amadou DIALLO <stata.diallo@gmail.com>]

Many thanks Professor Roger.
I am looking forward the new rtfappend command. I wish it will not
only handle estout, but also esttad and other alike-commands (outreg2,
etc.). I know, I am pushing.
As for the tutorials, I read your paper, however, I think it is very
short on providing examples using rtfutil, and the example you
provided is too sophisticated to be easily reproduced.
In a nutshell, rtf programming is good until it comes to tables where
you need solid nerves !!!
I wish you a good day.
Bachir.

2013/2/13, 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
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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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