st: New version of -rtfutil- on SSC

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

Thanks as always to Kit Baum, a new version of the -rtfutil- package is 
now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- package to 
do this, or -adoupdate- if you already have an old version of -rtfutil-.

The -rtfutil- package is described as below on my website. The new 
version adds a new module -rtfappend-, enabling the user to append 
-rtfutil- output to an existing RTF document. This new  module allows 
the user to build .rtf documents sequentially, using both -rtfutil- and 
-estout- modules (such as -estadd-). For instance, the user might start 
with a .rtf preamble, containing complicated specifications of character 
set declaration, default font declaration, font tables, color tables, 
stylesheets, info groups, preliminary formatting commands, headers, 
footers, and other extra information. The user might then add -rtfutil- 
components, using -rtfappend-, -rtflink- and -rtfclose-, and -estout- 
components, using -esttab-. This allows the user to mix -estout- output 
(which most users seem to find easier to generate than -listtab- output) 
and linked graphs (which -rtflink- can do and which -estout- was never 
designed to do).

I would like to thank Ben Jann for writing the -esttab- module of the 
-estout- package, from which I lifted a few lines of code and adapted 
them to allow for the possibility that the final } character in a RTF 
document is not on a line of its own. (Microsoft Word routinely produces 
RTF documents with this annoying feature, at least on my Windows 7 
Enterprise system.) I would also like to thank Amadou Diallo for 
suggesting (on Statalist) that something like -rtfappend- might be a 
good idea.

Best wishes

Roger

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package rtfutil from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata11
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TITLE
      rtfutil: Utilities for writing Rich Text Format (RTF) files

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      The rtfutil package is a suite of file handling utilities for
      producing Rich Text Format (RTF) files in Stata, possibly
      containing plots and tables.  These RTF files can then be
      opened by Microsoft Word, and possibly by alternative free
      word processors.  The plots can be included by inserting, as
      linked objects, graphics files that might be produced by the
      graph export command in Stata.  The tables can be included by
      using the listtab command, downloadable from SSC, with the
      handle() option.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 13february2013
      Stata-Version: 11

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      rtfopen.ado
      rtfappend.ado
      rtfsect.ado
      rtflink.ado
      rtfhyper.ado
      rtfcumlist.ado
      rtfrstyle.ado
      rtfclose.ado
      rtfutil.sthlp
      rtfopen.sthlp
      rtfappend.sthlp
      rtfsect.sthlp
      rtflink.sthlp
      rtfhyper.sthlp
      rtfcumlist.sthlp
      rtfrstyle.sthlp
      rtfclose.sthlp
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