Escaping % in esttab with latex (without breaking graphs)

[Jesse Perla]

I am generating a number of graphs and latex files, where I want to use the variable label as the label in the table (and graphs). But the labels will frequently have a % sign in them. To illustrate:

sysuse auto
label variable price "% price" 
twoway (scatter price mpg)
eststo: quietly regress price weight mpg
esttab using example.tex, replace label

Note that the label "% price" works fine in the twoway graph, but in the "example.tex" file, the % turns into a latex comment as it is not properly escaped.

Is there any way around this or estout features I am missing?

I realize I can use:

label variable price "\% price"

which fixes the latex issue, but it breaks the graphs. It would be a pain to constantly switch back and forh.

[Daniel Bela]

Did you try adding the option "substitute(% \%)"? It's an option of -estout- (which is the low-level command -esttab- uses), and all options of -estout- can also be used with -esttab-. The following works for me:

sysuse auto
label variable price "% price"
twoway (scatter price mpg)
eststo: quietly regress price weight mpg
esttab , tex label substitute(% \%)

Regards
Bela

[Jesse Perla]

Perfect, thanks!