Allow tabs and text colons in headers
jrising opened this issue · comments
YAML does not support tabs, but we have non-technical people making the headers, and they want tabs. This should just be a pre-processing step to replace tabs with spaces.
They also appear to like putting colons in their description lines, like:
description: Cubic splines regression with linear interactions (3 factors: log_popop,Tmean,log_GDPpc). 8 knots: -12, -7, 0, 10, 18, 23, 28, 33 . DO file location : GCP\MORTALITY\analysis\temp_AEA.do
Again, this is non-ambiguous, so we should add it with a pre-processing step.
are you encountering this problem mostly on CSVVs? I'm more inclined to look into the CSVV autogeneration problem than dropping our support for standard yaml
Let me connect you with the people making CSVVs and we can see if that's a workable solution.