Re: st: RE: Graphs: patterns instead of solid colors in Stata Maps

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

I have run into that problem a number of time in medical journal 
submissions (and sometimes in comments from reviewers). I second 
Jeph's request.

Fred

At 08:14 AM 6/7/2007, Jeph Herrin wrote:

> I work with numerous packages, and eventually manage to get
> what I want. However, the addition of what seems like a trivial
> feature to Stata would make my life much easier.
>
> For example, in
>
>  Hospital improvement in time to reperfusion in patients with acute
>  myocardial infarction, 1999 to 2002. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006 Jan
>  3;47(1):45-51. McNamara RL, Herrin J, et al
>
> You will see a "stippled" histogram that I produced in Excel. My
> coauthor is a clinician who felt this figure was the clearest way to
> communicate to other clinicians; the journal editors denied us
> the option of grey shading, requiring black & white figures only.
> Thus, each time I revised and reran the analysis, which was often,
> I had to export the data to excel to recreate this figure manually.
> There are tricks to speed this up, but it is still labor intensive
> and error prone.

Fred Wolfe
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
Wichita, Kansas
Tel +1 316 263 2125
fwolfe@arthritis-research.org

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