st: Re: wrapping title with by option

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

...
Although not exactly a "solution", you can directly edit the by-graph titles 
using the gr_edit command:

gr_edit .graphs[1].subtitle.text[1]=`"This is by group 1"'

will change the 1st line of the title of the 1st by-group graph


gr_edit .graphs[2].subtitle.text[2]=`"Hi There graph 2 line 2"'

will add a second line (text[2]) to the title of the second by-group graph 
(graphs[2])

So, it wouldn't be too hard to write an ado that would semi-automate this 
process to get multi-lined by-graph titles -- either by supplying a quote 
delimited list of titles or perhaps through some use of label languages(?). 
However, I'd have to agree with posts here that the graph is not very good as is 
and I'd also say that I prefer to keep shorter titles when working with 
multiples.

Michael Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Maarten buis" <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 4:38 PM
Subject: st: wrapping title with by option



> I was trying to help these guys http://tables2graphs.com/doku.php by
> providing them with Stata code for some of their graphs (they requested
> that here:
> http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2007/07/tables2graphsco.html
> )
>
> Anyhow I got already stuck on the first graph on what seems to be a
> minor thing, the wrapping of the subtitles. I was trying to recreate
> that graph with the -by()- option, but couldn't get the subtitles to
> wrap.
>
> The subtitles are obtained from the value labels, and titles wrap by
> feeding them two (or more) strings, so thought lets create value labels
> with multiple strings, which is possible by surrounding them with
> compound quotes. However, for once I think that the compound quotes
> work too well, because when I create the graph they are treated as one
> string. I realize that this is good behaviour, but it doesn't solve my
> problem of how to wrap titles with the -by()- option. Does anyone have
> any thoughts?
>
> *--------------- begin example ----------------
> sysuse auto, clear
>
> label defin foreign 0 `""realy long" "title""' /*
>                */  1 `""another" "long title""'
> label value foreign foreign
> twoway scatter pri mpg, by(foreign)
> *---------------- end example ------------------
>
> Maarten
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