Stata has 2 decimal separators, period and comma (dpset command). How do I get a midline period (alt0183 · ) as decimal separator? It is required by some journals, like The Lancet.
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Perhaps somebody else knows a way, but to my knowledge you cannot do this within Stata. I think you will have to transfer your Stata output to a word processor or text editor and then use its search and replace functions.
While I have never published in the Lancet, I am surprised to hear you are encountering such a request. It has never happened to me. This strikes me as falling squarely within the realm of the typesetting that is part of what the journals presumably do to earn their subscription fees,
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I have some graphs from metan (meta-analysis) and ES+CI should have midline decimals (I can edit the X-axis labels in the graph editor). Indeed quite odd, but they insist on it and describe it in their guide for authors. It is possible to make such decimal separators in MS Excel or MS Word but I can't output an editable STATA graph to those programs....Comment
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I am also submitting a paper to the Lancet and am reformatting with midline decimals. Did you ever solve how to do this for the metaan command?Comment
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