Re: st: re: inserting GE sign

[Ron�n Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

Kit Baum wrote:

> The last phrase is the key: it appears quite straightforward in Mac OS
> X, using the Character Palette:
>
> twoway qfitci mpg weight, stdf text(35 2040 "this * that", place(e))
>
> works just fine, where the * is replaced by that character. If I leave
> that character in the email message, Statalist refuses to accept the
> message (I have tried twice), but take my word for it, there is such a
> character available in Stata's default font.
There are a couple of <alt>-character combinations well worth knowing

-  "<" or ">" symbols produces GE or LE symbols
-  "/"  gives the division sign
-  zero  gives the degrees sign
- 9 produces a bullet
- with the hyphen, if produces an en dash (and <shift><alt>dash gets you 
an em dash) which are very useful in text like "25% - 49%"


And a little experimentation confirms that Stata on OS X has a full 
character set at its disposal (and it would have surprised me if it 
hadn't), so the only thing between you an an elegant graph is...

... but no, I won't say it.

(... is <alt>;)


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