Esttab to latex: make notes table-width

[Noor Sethi]

Hi Statalisters,

I'm running several regressions and creating multiple tables (each containing multiple regressions) using esttab, such as the example below.

 
  sysuse auto.dta, clear
  generate wtsq = weight^2

  
* create table 1
  eststo clear

  regress mpg weight
  eststo a

  regress mpg weight wtsq
  eststo b

  regress mpg weight wtsq foreign
  eststo c
  
  esttab a b c using "table1.tex", replace addnotes("A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width. A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width. A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width. A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width. A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width.")
  
* create table 2
  eststo clear
  
  regress price headroom
  eststo a
  
  regress price headroom trunk
  eststo b
  
  regress price headroom trunk length
  eststo c
  
  esttab a b c using "table2.tex", replace addnotes("A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width. A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width. A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width. A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width. A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width.")

I then wrote a LaTex file that reads:

\documentclass[a4paper, hidelinks]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,
           amssymb,
           amsthm,
           appendix,
           bbm,
           booktabs,
           caption,
           color,
           enumitem,
           etoolbox,
           fancyhdr,
           float,
           graphicx,
           hyperref,
           inputenc,
           latexsym,
           mathtools,
           multicol,
           natbib,
           parskip,
           pdflscape,
           pgfplots,
           setspace,
           soul,
           tikz,
           titlesec,
           titling}
\usepackage[margin=.2in]{geometry}
\usepackage{grffile}

% wrap addnotes text
% \newcommand{{l}{\footnotesize Notes:}}{{@{}p{.9\linewidth}@{}}{\footnotesize Notes:}} NOT WORKING

\begin{document}

\input{"table1.tex"} %stata's latex output
\input{"table2.tex"} %stata's latex output

\end{document}

This creates a runaway note at the bottom of each table. I'd like to make each note table-width. The outputted latex code from stata reads:

\multicolumn{4}{l}{\footnotesize A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width. A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width. A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width. A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width. A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width.}

According to this link, I could replace the outputted stata code with

\multicolumn{4}{@{}p{\linewidth}@{}}{\footnotesize{\footnotesize A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width. A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width. A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width. A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width. A very long note that I would like to wrap at table width.}

which works. However given that I'm doing this for dozens of tables, I'd like to know how to do this globally in my latex preamble.

TIA!

[Noor Sethi]

After much searching, found an (albeit, less than elegant) solution. https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...multiple-lines Hallelujah! Still, open to something more straightforward if anyone knows!