Re: st: PROBLEM fillling in a gray scale for the bars for graphbar

[Thomas Speidel <thomas@tmbx.com>]

This topic has been dealt with many times on the list.  See for example:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2006-02/msg00887.html

You can however experiment with full colours.  A useful tool to select 
appropriate color combinations can be found here:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorBrewer/ColorBrewer.html

Thomas



Quoting Anna Gueorguieva <anna_i_g@yahoo.com> Mon Jun 19 09:53:46 2006:


> Dear all,
> thank you very much for your incredible help!
> I need my graphs to look good printed black and white.
> The bars need to be filled out, idealy with some black
> white pattern (e.g. dots, vertical lines) or even a
> clear gray scale might work.
>
> I am running into the following problem:
> . graph bar (asis) cov02 cov05 , ///
> >  over(stratum, relabel(1 "Tirana" 2 "Coastal" 3
> "Mountain" 4 "Central" 5 "Total") ) ///
> > legend(label(1 "Coverage in 2002") label(2 "Coverage
> in 2005") ) ytitle("percent of individuals") ///
> > blabel(bar, pos(inside) format(%9.0f) color(white))
> bar(1 bfc(gs0)) bar(2 bfc(gs50)) ///
> > note("Source: LSMS 2002 and 2005.")
> invalid bar number, 1 bfc(gs0)
> invalid syntax
> invalid syntax
> invalid syntax
> invalid syntax
>
> Any ideas how I hsould do it? How about a fill in
> pattern?
>
> Thank you in advance!
> Best,
> Anna
>
>
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