RE: st: RE: percent format

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

Unfortunately you can't define it at the value label level; you need to 
specify it in the graph command.

My -splitvallabels- command (on SSC) automates the process of splitting up 
value labels into pieces for multiple-line labelling on graphs, however.

-Nick WInter

At 11:19 AM 6/14/2005, you wrote:

> No.
> label def Coverage ... 2 `""Govt." "programs""' ...
> generates an Invalid Syntax error.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 6:23 AM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: RE: st: RE: percent format
>
> Breaking labels into two lines was discussed
> about 3 weeks ago:
>
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-05/msg00712.html
>
> Is that what you want?
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Frank de Libero
> >
> > The reason for -yscale(off)- points to a limitation of value labels:
> > having a label break across two (or more) lines. Originally I had a
> > value label of
> > "Government programs" but that took up too much space so I
> > changed it to
> > "Govt. programs", but that wasn't acceptable. -yscale(off)-
> > was used so
> > the label could be on two lines.
> >
> > From my view, being able to put value labels on more than one line is
> > about a 2 on a ten-scale of desirability in Stata, but it would be a
> > nice touch.
>
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