Thanks very much for the plug, which I gave myself
earlier. (For some probably local reason mails have
been arriving here in a very odd order, so I didn't
see this until now.)
The reference is strictly Newton and Cox (2006).
I am always happy to regard myself as standing on
Newton's shoulders, although in this case Joe might wish I were
a little lighter.
(Reminds me of a book on catastrophe theory
dedicated by the two authors to Christopher Zeeman,
"at whose feet we sit and on whose shoulders we stand". The
usual quip was that it needed two topologists to
think up such a contorted position.)
Nick
[email protected]
Newson, Roger B
> A good reference for this is Cox (2004), who wrote a Stata Tip on the
> subject, which is collected with 32 others in Cox and Newton (2006).
> Essentially, you use macros, together with the Stata char() command,
> which inputs a number and outputs the corresponding ASCII
> character. For
> instance, if we want to produce a mu in a variable label that might
> appear in a plot title, we might type
>
> local mu=char(181)
> label variable conc "Concentration (`mu'moles/l)"
> scatter conc time
>
> These characters can be exported to text editors or even
> Microsoft Word.
> However, superscripts and subscripts, as you say, are still a problem,
> especially if you are producing graphs and/or exporting text to
> Microsoft Word. (Life is a bit easier if you are exporting TeX tables,
> eg using the SSC package -listtex-.)
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Roger
>
>
> References
>
> Cox NJ. 2004. Stata tip 6: Inserting awkward characters into the plot.
> The Stata Journal 4(1): 95-96.
>
> Cox NJ, Newton HJ (eds.) 2006. Thirty-three Stata tips.
> College Station,
> TX: Stata Press.
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