Fwd: st: Greek characters in graph titles

[Thomas Trikalinos (.Mac) <ttrikalin@mac.com>]

Actually, you may get some greek Letters (capital Pi , capital sigma, 
mu) used for standard mathematical notation using the _char(n)_ string 
function, where n=1 to n=255. The function returns ASCII characters. 
You can easily check which letter corresponds to what number, using 
something like:

. forvalues i = 1(1)255 {
. local character = char(`i')
. di "for n=`i', ASCII char = `character'"
. }

Then, if you need capital Delta for example set a proper local macro:

. local delta = char(198)   // in my Mac at least

and then you can use the character in titles etc:

. sysuse auto
. gr two scatter mpg rep78, ytitle("The letter is the greek Delta: 
`delta'")

Well I trust you have better use for _`delta'_ than this example.

Cheers

Tom



Begin forwarded message:


> From: Thomas Trikalinos <ttrikalin@mac.com> (.Mac)
> Date: July 21, 2004 16:18:41 EEST
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: Greek characters in graph titles
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>
> I gave up long ago.
>
> Tom
>
> On Jul 21, 2004, at 14:15, D.Christodoulou wrote:
>
> > Dear Statalisters,
> >
> > Apparently, Stata does not allow Greek characters. Is that the case ?
> > I attempted to insert some greek characters from the Do-File editor 
> > in a
> > graph-title
> > and the result was dissapointing.
> >
> > Is there a way to do this, or shall I give up trying.
> > many thanks in advance,
> > Dimitris
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > Dimitris Christodoulou
> > Teaching and Research Associate
> > School for Business and Regional Development
> > University of Wales, Bangor
> > Hen Coleg
> > LL57 2DG Bangor
> > UK
> > e-mail: D.Christodoulou@bangor.ac.uk
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