st: Plotting string variables with sencode

[Joanna Carrington <jcarring@sgul.ac.uk>]

Dear Stata list users,

I am trying to produce a graph that is essentially a forest plot using a 
combination of a scatter plot and a twoway rcap plot.  I have gone down 
this route as I have found the metagraph and eclplots are not exactly 
what I need.  I have estimates with very different weights and those 
that are weighted heavily completely engulf the other lightly weighted 
estimates when metagraph is used (I have tried changing the scale of the 
weights in the plot and this doesn't help as the smaller weights 
disappear).  The [w="a weight"] option does not work with the eclplot 
command.

So using the my scatter and rcap plot I need to plot the alphanumerical 
id of the estimates on the y axis.  I have used sencode to produce a new 
variable that, if I'm correct in thinking, is numerical but keeps the 
alphanumerical part as a label.  Now when I use this variable in the 
plots I would like the labels to be displayed (automatically preferably 
to me specifying each individual label using ylabel(1 "" 2 etc)) rather 
than the number. 
Does anyone know how I can do this please?

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