st: Re: RE: Installing symbolstyles

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

I'd like to expand a little on Nick's 1st suggestion.  You can actually get 
at quite a variety of symbols by defining a variable that contains the 
symbol you want and using marker labels.  It takes some experimentation, but 
if you can find a font that has the symbol you want, you can usually get it 
into a Stata graph as the marker.   For example, I found that char(186) is 
the paragraph symbol in my default font, so:

gen str1 c186=char(186)
gr tw scatter mpg weight, mlab(c186) mlabpos(0) msym(i)

The resulting graph uses the paragraph symbol instead of a regular marker. 
If you want to access some more esoteric symbol that isn't in the default 
font's character set, you can change the font used in the graph window by 
using Graph-Preferences.

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 12:44 PM
Subject: st: RE: Installing symbolstyles



> I believe not, as the code for this would require very low
> level programming and StataCorp have yet to publicise how
> to extend the graphics in this respect -- and on my guess
> are unlikely to do that in any foreseeable future.
>
> You can
>
> 1 use printable characters within marker label variables
>
> <snip>
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Eric G. Wruck
>
> > Is it possible to install a new symbolstyle (symbolstyles are the
> > circles, triangles, squares & so forth that can be used to mark
> > observations in a graph)?  If so, how does one go about doing so?
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