Asking about using -tabout- program and LaTeX for making publication tables

[Thong Nguyen]

Dear all,

I have tried to use the Stata program -tabout- which is published by Ian Watson, I have run the suggesting codes of Ian Watson from the tutorial ( You can see this by downloading the attached file or search it via Google by typing "Publication quality tables in Stata:
a tutorial for the tabout program".

/*tex
tex \usepackage{booktabs}
tex \usepackage{tabularx}
tex*/

texdoc init top, replace
/*tex
tex \begin{center}
tex \footnotesize
tex \newcolumntype{Y}{>{\raggedleft\arraybackslash}X}
tex \begin{tabularx} {#} {@{} l Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y@{}} \\
tex \toprule
tex*/

texdoc init bot, replace
/*tex
tex \bottomrule
tex \addlinespace[.75ex]
tex \end{tabularx}
tex \par
tex \scriptsize{\emph{Source: }#}
tex \normalsize
tex \end{center}
tex*/


sysuse cancer, clear
la var died "Patient died"
la def ny 0 "No" 1 "Yes", modify
la val died ny
recode studytime (min/10 = 1 "10 or less months") ///
(11/20 = 2 "11 to 20 months") ///
(21/30 = 3 "21 to 30 months") ///
(31/max = 4 "31 or more months") ///
, gen(stime)
la var stime "To died or exp. end"
tabout stime died using table1.tex, ///
cells(freq col cum) format(0 1) clab(No. Col_% Cum_%) ///
replace ///
style(tex) bt cl1(2-10) cl2(2-4 5-7 8-10) font(bold) ///
topf(top.tex) botf(bot.tex) topstr(14cm) botstr(cancer.dta)


sysuse nlsw88, clear
la var south "Location"
la def south 0 "Does not live in the South" ///
1 "Lives in the South"
la val south south
la var race "Race"
la def race 1 "White" 2 "Black" 3 "Other"
la val race race

la var collgrad "Education"
la def collgrad 0 "Not college graduate" 1 "College graduate"
la val collgrad collgrad
gen wt = 10 * runiform()
tabout south race collgrad [iw=wt] using table3.tex, ///
cells(freq row col) format(0c 1p 1p) layout(cb) h1(nil) h3(nil) npos(row) ///
replace ///
style(tex) bt font(bold) rotate(60) ///
topf(top.tex) botf(bot.tex) topstr(15cm) botstr(nlsw88.dta)

Then, copying and pasting the resutls to LaTex. Unfortunately, it does not work. How to fix it in order to get the 'standard' table. In the case, it is the Table #1 of the tutorial on page #13.

\begin{table}

& \multicolumn{9}{c}{\textbf{Patient died}} \\

\cmidrule(l{.75em}){2-10}

\textbf{To died or exp. end} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{No}} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{Yes}} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{Total}} \\

\cmidrule(l{.75em}){2-4} \cmidrule(l{.75em}){5-7}\cmidrule(l{.75em}){8-10}

&No.&Col \%&Cum \%&No.&Col \%&Cum \%&No.&Col \%&Cum \% \\

\midrule

10 or less months&4&23.5&23.5&15&48.4&48.4&19&39.6&39.6 \\

11 to 20 months&6&35.3&58.8&8&25.8&74.2&14&29.2&68.8 \\

21 to 30 months&2&11.8&70.6&7&22.6&96.8&9&18.8&87.5 \\

31 or more months&5&29.4&100.0&1&3.2&100.0&6&12.5&100.0 \\

\textbf{Total}&17&100.0&&31&100.0&&48&100.0& \\




\end{table}

It is my first time using LaTex and -tabout-. Thank you all in advance!

[Roberto Liebscher]

Your latex document does not compile because you have not declared a documentclass. Also \cmidrule requires the booktabs package and the actual table needs to be set in the tabular environment:

\documentclass[]{scrartcl}

\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{llllllllll}

& \multicolumn{9}{c}{\textbf{Patient died}} \\

\cmidrule(l{.75em}){2-10}

\textbf{To died or exp. end} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{No}} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{Yes}} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{Total}} \\

\cmidrule(l{.75em}){2-4} \cmidrule(l{.75em}){5-7}\cmidrule(l{.75em}){8-10}

&No.&Col \%&Cum \%&No.&Col \%&Cum \%&No.&Col \%&Cum \% \\

\midrule

10 or less months&4&23.5&23.5&15&48.4&48.4&19&39.6&39.6 \\

11 to 20 months&6&35.3&58.8&8&25.8&74.2&14&29.2&68.8 \\

21 to 30 months&2&11.8&70.6&7&22.6&96.8&9&18.8&87.5 \\

31 or more months&5&29.4&100.0&1&3.2&100.0&6&12.5&100.0 \\

\textbf{Total}&17&100.0&&31&100.0&&48&100.0& \\
\end{tabular}

\end{table}
\end{document}

[Thong Nguyen]

Thank you very much for your help, Roberto!
I have also downloaded the following book (a draft version) "Applied LATEX for Economists,
Social Scientists and Others from Trinity College Dublin" for learning more.

[Roberto Liebscher]

Glad, it helped. Here are two other resources I found really helpful while using LaTeX:

• Detexify -> Recognizes handwritten symbols and gives you the LaTeX code for the symbol.
• Richard Stanton's LaTeX page with several tips and tricks.

[Thong Nguyen]

Dear Roberto,

I have a question for you. How to convert directly LaTeX pdf file to Microsoft word file? I have searched on the Internet, however, I have not found something can help me, several suggestion and it makes me confused.
Thank you in advance!

[Roberto Liebscher]

Thong Nguyen I think you found nothing on the internet because the interest in doing such things is limited You either write in LaTeX or Word -- not both. If you want to use Word why not using tabout to produce a table that you can copy into Word and format it there?

[Thong Nguyen]

Dear Roberto,

Because, when I used -tabout- for making tables directly to Word, its format is so bad; additionally, I would like to have just tables, then copying and pasting them into Word, and start to write my report. Of course, I can use Adobe Acrobat Pro XI for converting .pdf file to .doc file. The problem I got is why I always have fontsizes as 10pt, not 13pt? Could you help me to fix it, please?

% !TEX TS-program = xelatex

\documentclass[a4paper,13pt]{extarticle}

\usepackage{extsizes}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[vietnamese]{babel}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage[left=2cm,right=2cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry}

\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
\fontsize{13pt}{18pt}\selectfont
\begin{document}
    \begin{table}

Thank you very much, Roberto!

[Roberto Liebscher]

So when you use Adobe Acrobat it converts to a wrong fontsize? I am afraid, I cannot help you with that. I would rather write the whole document in LaTeX. But when you insist using word you should try to avoid to go the long way over LaTeX, try the style(tab) option of tabout, copy the table to Excel and copy it to Word from there (just one idea).

[Thong Nguyen]

Thank you for your reply, Roberto.

[Johnny Chin]

Then, copying and pasting the resutls to LaTex. Unfortunately, it does not work. How to fix it in order to get the 'standard' table. In the case, it is the Table #1 of the tutorial on page #13.

\begin{table}

& \multicolumn{9}{c}{\textbf{Patient died}} \\

\cmidrule(l{.75em}){2-10}

\textbf{To died or exp. end} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{No}} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{Yes}} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{Total}} \\

\cmidrule(l{.75em}){2-4} \cmidrule(l{.75em}){5-7}\cmidrule(l{.75em}){8-10}

&No.&Col \%&Cum \%&No.&Col \%&Cum \%&No.&Col \%&Cum \% \\

\midrule

10 or less months&4&23.5&23.5&15&48.4&48.4&19&39.6&39.6 \\

11 to 20 months&6&35.3&58.8&8&25.8&74.2&14&29.2&68.8 \\

21 to 30 months&2&11.8&70.6&7&22.6&96.8&9&18.8&87.5 \\

31 or more months&5&29.4&100.0&1&3.2&100.0&6&12.5&100.0 \\

\textbf{Total}&17&100.0&&31&100.0&&48&100.0& \\




\end{table}

It is my first time using LaTex and -tabout-. Thank you all in advance!

Hello Thong,

I am also trying out the tabout tutorial file: but I couldn't get the code diagram (as quoted) you posted in your first post? Stata gives me an error-prone tex file as below:

\documentclass[]{scrartcl}




\usepackage{booktabs}

\begin{document}




\begin{center}

\footnotesize

\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\raggedleft\arraybackslash}X}

\begin{tabularx} {14cm} {@{} l Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y@{}} \\

\toprule

& \multicolumn{9}{c}{\textbf{Patient died}} \\

\cmidrule(l{.75em}){2-10}

\textbf{To died or exp. end} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{No}} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{Yes}} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{Total}} \\

\cmidrule(l{.75em}){2-4} \cmidrule(l{.75em}){5-7}\cmidrule(l{.75em}){8-10}

&No.&Col \%&Cum \%&No.&Col \%&Cum \%&No.&Col \%&Cum \% \\

\midrule

10 or less months&4&23.5&23.5&15&48.4&48.4&19&39.6&39.6 \\

11 to 20 months&6&35.3&58.8&8&25.8&74.2&14&29.2&68.8 \\

21 to 30 months&2&11.8&70.6&7&22.6&96.8&9&18.8&87.5 \\

31 or more months&5&29.4&100.0&1&3.2&100.0&6&12.5&100.0 \\

\textbf{Total}&17&100.0&&31&100.0&&48&100.0& \\

\bottomrule

\addlinespace[.75ex]

\end{tabularx}

\par

\scriptsize{\emph{Source: }cancer.dta}

\normalsize

\end{center}




\end{document}