Apologies for the incorrect subject line in my previous post. To avoid
the evil WINMAIL.DAT file attachment in my Outlook, I post to Statalist
by replying to an existing message. This time I forgot to change the
subject line.
Cheers,
Nick W.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Winter
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:08 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: -db- suggestion
>
>
> Consider the -graph- command below, which is closely based on the
> example on page 6 of [G]. The difference is that I'm specifying a
> ytitle() for the second y-axis, said title is "Diff.". If I just
> specify "ytitle( "Diff." axis(2) )", then the title is centered on the
> entire y-axis. I want it moved down; to do this I included
> just(left),
> and fiddled with the width() option until it was sitting
> where I wanted.
>
> Am I missing some cool option that will make this easier? I'm
> imagining something like:
>
> ytitle( "Diff." , just(center) at(10) )
>
> which would place the title relative to the location of the value "10"
> on the scale?
>
> Cheers,
> Nick Winter
>
> *-------------------------------------------------
> sysuse uslifeexp, clear
> gen diff = le_wm - le_bm
> graph twoway (line le_wm year, yaxis(1 2) xaxis(1 2) ) ///
> (line le_bm year) ///
> (line diff year) ///
> (lfit diff year) ///
> , ytitle( "Diff." , width(40) axis(2) size(small) just(left) ) ///
> xtitle( "", axis(2) ) ///
> xlabel( 1918, axis(2) ) ///
> ylabel(0(5)20, axis(2) gmin angle(horizontal) ) ///
> ylabel( 0 20(10)80, gmax angle(horizontal) ) ///
> ytitle( "Life expectancy at birth (years)" ) ///
> title( "White and black life expectancy" ) ///
> subtitle( "USA, 1900-1999") ///
> legend( order(1 2) label(1 "White males") label(2 "Black males") )
> *------------------------------------------------
>
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