Interprets a single line of .smcl markup the way Stata's own Results
window / Viewer would display it: {col N} jumps (padding with spaces)
to absolute column N, {hline N} draws N (default 1 screen width's
worth, capped at 78 as Stata's own default window width) - characters,
{space N} inserts N literal spaces, {c NAME} substitutes a
box-drawing / literal-brace character (see .SMCL_C_CODES), a syntax-2/4
directive ({res:text}, {ralign 12:text}) keeps just text (rendered
according to its own rule when one applies, e.g. right-alignment), and
every other directive (a style/mode marker, a link directive such as
{help ...}, a comment {* ...}) is a zero-width no-op that is simply
removed. Unrecognised directives are also removed rather than left in the
output verbatim, since a stray {unknown} reads far worse in extracted
text than silently dropping a directive this port has not seen.
Arguments
- line
one raw line of
.smcltext (as read from the file, one element ofreadLines()'s result)