markstat's syntax of include html

[Chen Samulsion]

Dear Stata users,

In using -markstat- (from SSC) written by German Rodriguez, I encounter a question about inserting .html file into markdown document. In the following link http://data.princeton.edu/stata/markdown/tabout,
German Rodriguez suggests that

we use tabout to generate table34.html and then simply .include table34.html in the document.

However, it seems can not work well with the .include mark. Below is what I get after runing tabout.stmd in Stata.

markstat using tabout, docx

[Chen Samulsion]

Thank you German Rodriguez, -markstat- is a very powerful package which makes Stata partly catch up with R in literate programming. I would have more good experience if I had mind myself to set it carefully using -whereis-.

[German Rodriguez]

Glad to see that Anders Alexandersson and Chen Samulsion sorted this out already. The .include syntax is indeed intended to be used only when the target output format is html. I have modified the -markstat- example page using -tabout- at http://data.princeton.edu/stata/markdown/tabout to indicate this fact more clearly.As noted in the earlier discussion that Anders referred to, if the target is docx you can always generate html and open the resulting file in Word. If you use -tabout- to generate LaTeX you can include the output using LaTeX's \input{filename} command.

[Chen Samulsion]

Thank you Anders Alexandersson, After reviewing the introduction again I get that German Rodriguez using the following

markstat using tabout, strict

intents to produce a html file, not a docx file.

[Anders Alexandersson]

The problem is discussed in post 1424404 on January 4.

[Chen Samulsion]

Hi Isaac Maddow-Zimet, adding option -strict- is not a right solution. Problem is as same as that in #1.
Ps. We can install -tabout- version 3 beta which is required by German Rodriguez from http://tabout.net.au/docs/home.php

[Isaac Maddow-Zimet]

I think you may need to use the "strict" option - so

 markstat using tabout, docx strict

as opposed to what you have above.

[Chen Samulsion]

PS. -markstat- in my computer is updated, and runs well (tabout.stmd defined in the second code).

. which markstat
c:\ado\plus\m\markstat.ado
*! v 2.2.0 <[email protected]> 26oct2016 last rev 7may2018
. markstat using tabout, docx

The quietly running part
----------------------------
```s/
    quietly sysuse auto, clear
    quietly sum weight
    local meanwt = r(mean)
    quietly sum length
    local meanlen = r(mean)
    local obs = r(N)
```

The title of my short report
----------------------------

This is an excerpt of the report to focus on the dynamic parts.
And now we have an important result: __`s %3.2f `meanwt'`__ is
the average weight of all vehicles. And a second important 
result: __`s %3.2f `meanlen'`__ is the average length.

```s/
    tabout3 rep78 foreign using table34.xls, replace ///
    font(italic) c(mean weight) f(0c) sum ///
    twidth(9) h1(Car type (mean weight in lbs.)) h3(nil) ///
    title(Table 34: Short report example) fn(auto.dta)
```
Report is over.