Thanks, Nick. I'll check it out.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Winter
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:38 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: RE: percent format
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: [email protected]
>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
>Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 6:23 AM
>To: [email protected]
>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
>[email protected]
>
>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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