I don't know if there is still interest in this problem, but adjusting the
-ylabel()- margin as a function of the difference in maximum widths of the
two ylabels appears to work.
For example:
clear
set obs 100
gen x = uniform()
gen y1 = uniform()*10
gen y2 = uniform()*100
gen y3 = uniform()*400
gen y4 = uniform()*90000
foreach i of numlist 1 3 {
qui sum y`i'
_natscale `=r(min)' `=r(max)' 5
local m`i' = r(max)
local l`i' = length("`m`i''")
local j = `i' + 1
qui sum y`j'
_natscale `=r(min)' `=r(max)' 5
local m`j' = r(max)
local l`j' = length("`m`j''")
local diff = (`l`j''- `l`i'')*2
display "lengths: " "`l`i'' `l`j'' `diff'"
scatter y`i' x, ylabel(,angle(h)) xlabel(none) xtitle("") ///
ytitle(, margin(0 `diff' 0 0 )) name(gr1, replace)
scatter y`j' x, ylabel(,angle(h)) name(gr2,replace) ///
ytitle(, margin(0 0 0 0 ))
graph combine gr1 gr2, col(1) name(gr_`j', replace)
graph drop gr1 gr2
}
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of David Elliott
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:52 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: Controlling alignment of left axis in -graph combine-d
> graphs
>
> Thank you, Svend. Incidently, I use your lean schemes for some of my
> graphs. For the time being I think I will stick to my workaround as I
> am creating graphs for a non-technical audience and they need to look
> as much like "business graphics" *shudder* as possible.
>
> On a more philosophical note: Should we not be able to specify a
> width for the axis labels? Or have the implicit width of format() be
> used as the width for the axis labels? I think this should be given
> some consideration by Stata. We can, for example, control legend
> width with textwidth(). It would be possible to do the same thing
> with a labelwidth() property, I should think. The only downside of a
> label overflow would be having the label very close to or overprinting
> the {x|y}title.
>
> DCE
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