I have some bad news and good news:
Under Stata 7 you could (still can) draw any self-designed plot using the
gph commands starting with a blank screen. That system seems to have been
abandoned - you have to start from a basic graph type. I mention this
because of a couple of recent requests could have been met by writing a
program of gph calls.
The good news is that hist is a two-way graph type, so text can be added
to it or it can be overlaid with another twoway type. You can combine it,
for example, with a oneway plot:
(using auto data)
gen zero=0
gen one=1
twoway (hist mpg, freq ) (rspike one zero mpg)
or label areas of interest
hist mpg, ylabel(,angle(h)) xline(30) text( 0.05 30.1 "Lowest acceptable", place(e))
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