promises "A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics"
Michael Mitchell Expected publication date: February 2004
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Steichen
> Sent: 08 October 2003 14:03
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Re: Documentation (was: Object oriented help files (and
> Tabling: an agenda))
>
>
> Fred Wolfe writes (in part):
>
> > I think that while additional documentation is on the
> mark (particularly
> > for documentation mavens [an OK word according to the
> OED], of which I am
> > one, what is required is practical and usable
> documentation. As I have
> > grown to love Stata 8's graphics, I have generated
> unbridled animosity to
> > the graphics help system and manual, having spent
> (wasted) hours trying to
> > find things to make the graph I needed.
>
> I agree strongly with Fred concerning graph's
> documentation. More than once
> I've run out of fingers trying to hold all the pages needed
> to follow a
> trail through graph's linked documentation down to the
> element I was looking
> for... and (sadly) sometimes I've forgotten why I wanted
> that element when I
> finally found it!
>
> > I think what is needed is a help system that displays all
> sorts of graphs
> > so that one can go to it and say, "That's the graph I want."
>
> My approach has been to keep a Word file holding both an image of a
> complicated graph that I've created and the commands I used
> to create it.
> Whether I need a completely new graph type or just a
> variation on an old
> one, I often first peruse this file for ideas before
> attempting to fight my
> way through the documentation.
>
> Tom Steichen
>
>
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