Thanks to Kit Baum a new version of smclpres is now available from SSC. To install type in Stata ssc install smclpres, replace.

Some talks are primarily on how to do things in Stata, like a lecture on graphs in Stata or a talk at a Stata Users' Group meeting. In those cases a .smcl presentation can be useful. A .smcl presentation is a series of linked .smcl files that open in the viewer inside Stata (like help-files). The strength of a .smcl presentation is that it can contain links that execute examples, open help files, open .do files, etc.

A .smcl presentation is all about illustrating how to do something in Stata, so preparing for such a talk typically starts with preparing a set of examples in .do file. By adding specific comments to that do-file, e.g. to indicate when a slide starts and when it ends, what the title of the slide is, etc, the -smclpres- program can turn that .do file in a .smcl presentation. This .smcl presentation can also be transformed to a .html handout.

A recent example of such a presentation is the presentation I held at the last German Stata Users' meeting on how to implement Agent Based Models in Mata: http://www.maartenbuis.nl/presentati...any19_buis.zip

The main improvements in this update of smclpres is that one can now include references from a BibTex library into the presentation.