Indent in Specific Cells Using Flexmat?

[Kevin Blaine]

#17471

Hi Dr. Shah — I looked through the global formatting defaults .ado file, as well as all help documentation for asdocx and flexmat, but I couldn’t find anything related to indenting text/numbers in a given cell. Is that possible?

[Attaullah Shah]

#17533

This is one of the un-documented directive. When asdocx tries to convert flexmat file into MS Word or other formats, it examines each cell of the matrix for the \indent_# directive. Here, # represents the number of spaces that should be added before the text in that cell. For example, if a cell starts with \indent_4 , it will add four spaces before the text.
You may also like to check text directors to format text, see this page.

Example

flexmat reset 
asdocx setfile, save(indent.html) replace
flexmat addrow, data(Variables, Frequencies)
flexmat addrow, data(Gender :) row(2)
flexmat addrow, data(\indent_4 Male, 655) row(3)
flexmat addrow, data(\indent_4 Female, 745) row(4)
asdocx export

Table: Results
 

  

   

   

      
Variables
      
Frequencies
    
   
    

      
Gender :
      

    
    

      
 Male
      
655
    
    

      
 Female
      
745
    
    

      
Notes:
    
  
 

[Kevin Blaine]

#17544

Fantastic. I thought something like this existed, but couldn’t find it. Makes sense to find out it is undocumented!

– Kevin

[Kevin Blaine]

#17630

Hi Dr. Shah — I’m finding that the text directors are inconsistent in flexmat. Sometimes they work, other times they don’t. For example, in the code below, using \b and \i, \b works in Line 5, but nowhere else. And \i doesn’t work at all. Any ideas?

local r = 1
asdocx setfile, save(Table1)
flexmat reset 
flexmat addrow, data(\b Day,\b Sample Size,\b Needed At Least 1 Medication) r(`r')
flexmat addrow, data(\b Day 1, , ) r(`++r') emptyok
flexmat addrow, data(\indent_4 \i WEBTips, 250 (50%),137 (54.8%)) r(`++r')
flexmat addrow, data(\indent_4 \i WEBInfo, 250 (50%),154 (61.6%)) r(`++r')

[Attaullah Shah]

#17631

The use of both \indent and \i directives simultaneously is currently not supported. However, it is on my to-do list for future updates. Additionally, the addition of formatting directives for table headers is also not yet available. The text formatting directives were added specifically for text and paragraphs, see [ details here ].

[Kevin Blaine]

#17632

Ah — that makes sense! Thanks for letting me know. 🙂

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