st: Esttab Latex

[Reinhard Schiel <rjschiel@gmail.com>]

Dear Statalist

I have encountered  strange results from using esttab to create latex =
tables from stata output.

After estimating multiple regressions and using the suffix  eststo, =
title(...): before each regression command, and then applying the =
following command to export the results to tex:
esttab using Output.tex, tab append ///
		b(2) star(* 0.10 ** 0.05 *** 0.01) se(3) nopar abs label =
nonumbers nodepvars nogaps ///
		stats(N ftests p_yr p_state p_statet, fmt(0 0 3 3 3) ///
		labels("Observations" "p-values of F-tests:" "Year =
dummies" "State dummies" "State trends")) ///
		varlabels(_cons "First" old_d1 "Second" old_d2 " " =
old_d3 "Third" ///
		old_d4 " " old_d5 " " old_d6 "Fourth" old_d7 " " old_d8 =
" " old_d9 " ") ///
		extracols(2 3 4 5 5 6 7 8) mlabels(,title) keep(_cons =
old_d? `leveleffect' `keepvars') ///
		labcol2("-" "B" "G" "BB" "BG" "GG" "BBB" "BBG" "BGG" =
"GGG", title("Previous")) ///
		mgroups("All years" "1972-84" "1985-94" "1995-2005" "All =
years" "1972-84" "1985-94" "1995-2005", ///
		pattern(1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1) lhs("order")) ///
		title("`title'") postfoot("") order(_cons old_d? =
`leveleffect' `keepvars')

The tex output, which is stored in a tex file, is not able to compile =
into a table in latex as it does not contain the required latex =
operators to inform latex that its dealing with a table. This has never =
happened to me before. An extract is provided below:

=09
First  -	-0.06***	-0.15***	-0.09***	-0.04***	=
-0.06***	-0.15***	-0.09***	-0.04***
0.010	0.055	0.009	0.009	 0.010	0.055	0.009	0.009
Second B	0.01	0.10**	0.04	-0.02
0.019	0.046	0.028	0.017    =20

I now have over a hundred tex files of this structure over estimates =
which took days to run.
Is there a way to correct the stata code I used to avoid this from =
reoccurring and  a simple way of getting the current output stored in =
tex files into sensible tables?

Thanks in advance
Reinhard
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