[Tex/LaTex] Importing .tex file in LaTeX

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I am working on an econometric thesis, and I need to import my stata regression output to LaTeX. I have saved the results as a .tex file on my desktop, but the \include or \import commands don't seem to get the data into my LaTeX doc. Is there any alternate command that I should be using instead?

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According to your question, you have saved the regression results as a .tex file on your desktop. However, it is not clear if the result is Latex source code or another data representation. You must check what is the content of the file.

As mentioned by David Beauchemin, you can produce Latex files inside Stata using the texdoc module/command. You may check many websites and slides explaining how to produce latex content using that module.

Once you have a file in Latex, you may "import" that file using \input. There is an import latex module that adds supports for the mentioned commands \import and \subimport. However, if you are not creating very complex documents, you may import the file without using this module.

If you have a file in another format, you must find which it is. Depending on the format, you may find other Latex modules to include the content in your documents.

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Since the command that imports the png files inside the pgf image is pgfimage, I redefined it like this:

\let\pgfimageWithoutPath\pgfimage 
\renewcommand{\pgfimage}[2][]{\pgfimageWithoutPath[#1]{figures/#2}}

The first line copies the original pgfimage command to a temporary pgfimageWithoutPath. The second line redefines pgfimage to be the same as pgfimage, but prefixing the path with figures/.

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I actually use the chapterfolder package, which allows me to split the document into subfolders, one per chapter. It's very cool for long documents but needs a workaround for importing the figures, exactly the same problem that you had. So in the end my importing for pgfs works like this:

This is the same as above, but using chapterfolders' directives.

\let\pgfimageWithoutCF\pgfimage
\renewcommand{\pgfimage}[2][]{\pgfimageWithoutCF[#1]{\cfcurrentfolder\subfigurepath#2}}

This is a wrapper to \input{figure.pgf}, which includes the chapter path:

\newcommand{\includepgf}[1]{\input{\cfcurrentfolder\subfigurepath#1.pgf}}

And finally this is a shortcut to make the figure fit exactly the width of the text (to be used like

% usage: \resizepgf[<optional size (defaults to textwidth)>]{<filename>}
\newcommand{\resizepgf}[2][\textwidth]{
    \resizebox{#1}{!}{\includepgf{#2}}
}

Thanks to jevopi's little blog for the how-to.

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