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{* 12 Dec 2001/25 March 2003}{...}
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help for {hi:log2html7}{right:SSC distribution 25 March 2003}
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{title:Translate a SMCL log file into HTML}
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{p 8 12}{cmd:log2html7}
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{it:smclfile}
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[{cmd:,}
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{cmd:replace}
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{cmdab:ti:tle}{cmd:(}{it:string}{cmd:)}
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{cmdab:in:put}{cmd:(}{it:string}{cmd:)}
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{cmdab:r:esult}{cmd:(}{it:string}{cmd:)}
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{cmd:bg(}{it:string}{cmd:)}
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]
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{title:Description}
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{p}
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{cmd:log2html7} is for use after {cmd:log}; see {help log}. If
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you are using Stata 8 or later, use {cmd:log2html} instead.
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{p} {cmd:log2html7} makes use of an undocumented command in Stata version 7,
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{cmd:log html}, which generates HTML log files from SMCL log files. SMCL, the
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Stata Markup and Control Language {help smcl}, is the default log file format
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introduced with version 7, and contains markup (similar to HTML) around
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elements of the log file. To use {cmd:log2html7}, you must first generate the
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default SMCL log file, not a text log file, with the file extension
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{cmd:.smcl}. Thus if you have {cmd:set logtype text} to prevent the generation
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of SMCL log files, you must either turn it off or explicitly state that a SMCL
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log file is to be produced, as by {cmd: log using my.smcl}.
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{p} {cmd:log2html7} requires only the base name of the logfile: e.g. {cmd:my},
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if the logfile is named {cmd:my.smcl}. The name of the HTML file produced will
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be this base name with {cmd:.html} appended, e.g. {cmd:my.html}.
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{p} {cmd:log2html7} requires that at least the 6 December 2001 update to Stata
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version 7 be installed. If a message "Invalid syntax" is encountered, please
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ensure that {cmd:query born} returns a date no earlier than 06 Dec 2001.
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{title:Limitation}
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{p} {cmd:log2html7} cannot reliably echo {it:names} of local or global macros
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given on command lines in the log. This is because before being passed
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to the Stata command {cmd:file}, which does most of the hard work within
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{cmd:log2html7}, they are caught by Stata's parser and substituted with
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their current {it:contents}, if any. The usual result is to replace macro names
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with empty strings, although on occasion you may be fortunate enough to have
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the correct contents of a macro substituted, or unfortunate enough to
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have something quite different substituted, if the contents of a macro have
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changed since the log was created. This behavior is outside the
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control of the program authors, who know of no work-around in Stata 7.
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The limitation does not apply to {cmd:log2html} used in conjunction
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with Stata 8 or higher.
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{title:Options}
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{p 0 4}
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{cmd:replace} specifies that if the HTML file exists, it is to be replaced.
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{p 0 4}
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{cmd:title()} specifies a string to be placed in the <TITLE> of the HTML page,
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and on the first line of the body of the page, using a <H2> heading.
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{p}
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The remaining options pertain to color choices. By default,
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{cmd:loghtml} produces a complete HTML page (i.e. with <HTML> and <BODY> tags)
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with a white background. Input lines (those resulting from user input) are
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rendered in RGB color "CC6600" (a shade of brown) and highlighted
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result-window lines are rendered in RGB color "000099" (a shade of blue).
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The options permit other choices for these three colors. For best results,
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one of the 216 "web safe" colors that display properly in web browsers on
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all computers in 256-color mode should be used. Also note that some
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combinations of colors are not workable; e.g. a black ("000000") background
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will cause all normally-rendered text to disappear.
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{p 0 4}
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{cmd:input()} allows the specification of a different color for the user input
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lines, in standard RGB notation (three duples of two bytes, each 00-FF).
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{p 0 4}
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{cmd:result()} allows the specification of a different color for the
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highlighted result lines, in standard RGB notation.
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{p 0 4}
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{cmd:bg()} allows the specification of a different color for the background, in
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standard RGB notation. For convenience, the argument may be given as "gray"
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or "grey", approximating most browsers' default behavior.
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{title:Examples}
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{p 4 8}{inp:. log using autostudy, replace}{p_end}
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{p 4 8}{inp:. use auto}{p_end}
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{p 4 8}{inp:. desc}{p_end}
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{p 4 8}{inp:. summ}{p_end}
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{p 4 8}{inp:. regress price mpg rep78}{p_end}
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{p 4 8}{inp:. log close}
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{p 4 8}{inp:. log2html7 autostudy, replace}
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{p 4 8}{inp:. log2html7 autostudy, replace ti("Automobile study")}
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{p 4 8}{inp:. log2html7 autostudy, replace in(ff3300) res(003333) bg(grey)}
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{title:Reference}
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Priester, Gary W. 2000. All you need to know about web safe colors.
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{browse "http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/articles/websafe1/websafe_colors.html"}
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{title:Acknowledgements}
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We acknowledge Ken Higbee's assistance with the documentation of
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{cmd:log html} and suggestions for improvement of this routine.
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{title:Authors}
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Christopher F Baum, Boston College, USA
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baum@bc.edu
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Nicholas J. Cox, University of Durham, UK
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n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
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{title:Also see}
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Manual: {hi:[R] log}, {hi:[P] smcl}
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On-line: help for {help log}, {help smcl}
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