Re: st: Stata 8 graphics, bar charts (stacked), color of labels

[Andreas Stiehler <as@berlecon.de>]

Firstly, I wish to thank for all the responses to my question.
Uli is right:
> > . graph bar x, over(y) blabel(bar, color(white) position(inside))
if y, for example, consists of 6 or 7 different values I have first to 
define the some number of different colors for the background.
Probably, I will need some darker and brighter colors for it. 
Respectively, I would like to use white and black labels within one 
bar.
(Putting the labels outside the bars or using boxes does not look very 
nice in my graphs.)
Therefore, I will try to apply Uli's solution.

Thank You,
Andreas


Am 16.09.2004 um 15:53 schrieb Ulrich Kohler:


> Derek Wagner, StataCorp wrote:
> > Roger Newson wrote:
> > > with the -bar(#, bcolor())- option I can only determine the color
> > > (and characteristics) of the bars - not of the labels (I am right?).
> > > For a dark bar color, for example, I would like to use white labels
> > > and vice versa. Is there any way to do that (without using boxes)?
> > If you would like dark bars and white labels within the bars, you
> > could use the -blabel- option with the -color- suboption.  You will
> > also want to put the labels within the bars (instead of on top)
> > because a white label would "disappear" on a white background- so
> > you could use the -position- suboption for that purpose.  For
> > example, your command might look like the following:
> >
> > . graph bar x, over(y) blabel(bar, color(white) position(inside))
> I think the problem of the original poster (Andreas Stiehler 
> <as@berlecon.de>)
> was different. He wants to specify different label colors for stacked 
> bars.
> Imagine a stacked bar chart with a lower bar-region in, say, black and 
> and an
> upper bar-region in white. In this case one wants to have white labels 
> in the
> lower bar and black labels for the upper bar. There is a solution with 
> -graph
> twoway bar- (see my posting from yesterday). However this solution 
> seems to
> be a bit complicated, given that on can tackle a similar problem 
> directelly
> with -graph pie-.
>
> regards
> uli
>
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