RE: st: Schemes and graph combination rethink?

[Adrian Mander <Adrian.Mander@mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk>]

I agree that my wants might be in the minority but it didn't take much to break
graph combine and I personally think that this needs a rethink.

I could write the command that I want by constructing the marginal  boxplots
from scratch myself and placing them where I want them but I think 
graph combine
could be more useful.

I think one possible solution is shown below
that keeps Stata's liking for relative scaling but fixing the plot region box.
Then we would have control over of exactly where a plot region is and 
let the graph region scale
around this box. This shouldn't be too difficult to implement not 
sure if it breaks lots of other
programs though

 (10%,20%)           (90%,20%)
     +-------------------+
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     +-------------------+
 (10%,80%)           (90%,80%)

cheers
Ade

At 12:21 27/10/2006, you wrote:

> My understanding is similar to Svend's.
>
> Otherwise put, you want -plot combine- as well as
> -graph combine-. I suspect that would be a lot of
> work to write and is really needed by only a few
> people, and so it is not likely to be high on the agenda.
>
> Another kind of solution is to fix the problem upstream.
>
> I've found that a -twoway- with
>
> plotregion(style(none)) yscale(off) xscale(off)
>
> clears the decks, after which you can put what
> you like where you like with a series of individual
> calls. That's how I wrote programs to do triangular
> and circular plots, neither of which is, on the face
> of it, a -twoway- plot at all.
>
> I quite like marginal box plots, but I like marginal
> rugs (ticks at every data value) even more. Putting
> minor ticks at every data value after calls to -levelsof-
> is one way to do that.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Svend Juul
>
> > Adrian wrote:
> >
> >     gr_example2 combine5
> > is an example in the -graph combine- help file
> > note that -gr_example2- is the command and combine5 is the option
> >
> > The rotation of the labels actually changes the size of the histogram
> > plot region and hence the graphs do not slot together exactly (as it
> > did before)
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Now I see - partially, at least (the well hidden command names inside
> > the help file still puzzle me).
> >
> > Your main point, I think, is that you can only control the plot area
> > size and location indirectly. It is the graph area minus what happens
> > to be outside the plot area, and that can give troubles or
> > inconveniencies; combined graphs is one of the cases.
> >
> > I agree, but I believe that there is not much hope for a change.
>
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