Re: [Gretl-devel] time for 1.9.8?
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012, Hélio Guilherme wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Allin Cottrell
<cottrell(a)wfu.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Lee Adkins wrote:
>
>> The main estimators "missing" are the various simulated mle and such.
>> gretl is already competent in the main categories, wls, iv, gmm, mle, nls.
>> This is not a big deal for me, but as models get fancier, these
>> techniques will be used more. Whether this is better done as an addon or
>> in C I can't say.
>
> There may well be a case for MCMC in C.
Translation, please.
Sorry, I was thinking of Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation.
> Agreed, but unfortunately it's hard if not impossible to get
> seamless cross-referencing across distinct PDF files. Does anyone
> have a suggestion other than creating a whopping great PDF
> containing both the Guide and the Reference?
I suggest TEX2HTML or something like that.
You would still author in TEX and produce HTML (both online and offline).
I am not talking by experience, but willing to investigate.
We could produce an HTML version of the Guide, yes, but IMO PDF is
much nicer to read; also the Guide contains some fairly complex
mathematical notation that is unlikely to work properly.
>> I'd like to see a way to add documented examples that can
be accessed from
>> links with the command and the user reference.
>
> There should be some PDF magic that makes that possible. Any PDF
> jockeys out there?
Done some work in this area with professional software and Open Office.
Is the idea if open the example in Gretl from a link in the document?
Yes, that's the idea. Since you can do javascript in PDF it
shouldn't be a big problem. Except that we'd probably want some
"client" mechanism for gretl so that the instruction would be:
launch gretl to open this script, or if gretl is already running,
tell the running gretl to open the script. Right now you can't do
the latter... unless you could somehow "fake" a drag-and-drop, I
wonder if that's possible?
Allin