Re: [Gretl-devel] Variable names in summary statistics (and similar)

> On Tue, 28 Feb 2017, Schaff, Frederik wrote: > >> Thanks for the answer. I thought it might be that one just needed to >> adjust, say, a parameter, to make it consistent with the regular >> maximal variable names length but I guess this would spoil the fixed >> layout. Another suggestion would be to somehow "switch" >> to variables IDs if the name is too long. Something like ID_xyz or >> such, instead of simply truncation with ~. > > OK, that's an idea worth thinking about. > >> Then I could use copy & paste to adjust the names in the latex tables, >> without risking to mix everything up. > > My first thought is that with looong names you might want to depart from > the triangular matrix format altogether. > > Allin The ones I am actually using for publication or presentation I am past-processing anyway (2 column names, as an example). ATM I cannot (without room for error) use the latex export (or raw export into, say excel, where I can use Exel2LaTex to prepare the data further for latex and fine tune it there later) because all the Information on the variables is lost due to the truncation.