Tabs vs Spaces

[riosavila]

Hi Tim,
I recently noticed a small problem (not sure if its nbstata or pystata)
When copying a chunk of code from a dofile into a quarto document, and run the code, some problems emerge if the code starts with a tabulation (for long codes).

This can be easily fixed, however if one uses Spaces instead of Tabs
Minor problem, but may bite more when transferring from one Do to Quarto (and jupyter?)

Thank you
F

[hugetim]

It would be helpful to see a specific example: the code and what error it produces. In nbstata stuff, I've tried to make the processing of code robust to the use of Tabs, but it's certainly possible it's sometimes not.

[riosavila]

Sorry that was totally my fault

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title: "Stata Error"
format: html
jupyter: nbstat
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Setup

sysuse auto, clear

Example

This one will work:

scatter price mpg, \\\
    ytitle("Price") xtitle("Miles per Gallon") ///
    title("Scatterplot of Price vs. Miles per Gallon") ///
    subtitle("Automobiles 1978") ///
    note("Source: Stata Example Datasets") ///
    caption("Scatterplot of Price vs. Miles per Gallon")

This one will not work:

scatter price mpg, ///
	ytitle("Price") xtitle("Miles per Gallon") ///
	title("Scatterplot of Price vs. Miles per Gallon") ///
	subtitle("Automobiles 1978") ///
	note("Source: Stata Example Datasets") ///
	caption("Scatterplot of Price vs. Miles per Gallon")

The difference. The second code chunk was written in Stata editor. So the Spaces are "tabs"
in the first case, I redid the indentation using vsc, so each tabulation is four "spaces"

In the second case it will indicate that command " " does not exists.

[friosavila]

Also, Some extra information using IPYNB

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[riosavila]

Not sure how to send you Jypter Notebooks, but
I did run an example with the code I provided earlier, and it works with Stata Magic, but with nbstata.

[hugetim]

Ok, right, I can confirm this is an nbstata issue, not pystata or quarto.

[hugetim]

The same issue occurs in v0.6.3 and v0.6.1, so it doesn't seem to have been introduced by recent changes to how comments and indentation are handled.

[hugetim]

It's actually quite a specific issue. For example, if you combined the sysuse auto line together in the same cell as the offending code, no error would be triggered. I'll try to get the fix shipped to a new pypi version this evening.

[friosavila]

Thank you!
Best wishes