Somehow, I don't think this horse will run. Nor
would I suggest that StataCorp even think about
it.
Stata 10 is officially two days old, although
shipping started last week. I doubt that anyone
outside StataCorp has as yet much experience with
the graph editor. So, suggesting, already, that we need _another_
one is a trifle premature, unless this is a joke.
What I suggest is different. Anyone who repeatedly
finds themselves making the same kinds of changes
to graphs in the Graph Editor can make that clear.
We will then find that
1. There is already a way of automating the production
of graphs with those changes. (You've not registered
that an option exists to do your tweak.) Or, alternatively, there
is another way of producing the graph you want.
(You are using -graph bar-, and you would be better
off with -twoway bar-, or whatever.)
2. There isn't a way, but StataCorp will find that they
can tweak the graph language upstream to make that true.
3. There isn't, and StataCorp won't or can't do
anything about it, usually because the changes really aren't
automatable in any reasonable way.
My very wild guess is that the distribution
will be #1 80%; #2 10%; #3 10%.
This does not refer to anything that people
do to graphs outside Stata, whether it is to do with
Greek symbols, polka dots or drawings of
little people.
Nick
[email protected]
SamL
> Sounds like a nice addition for Stata11 (eleven) would be PGHE-a
> Programmer's Graph Helper Editor--which would be the same as
> the Stata10
> editor *except* it would be restricted to the things that a programmer
> could use syntax to write. Then, a programmer could program
> a graph in a
> do-file, edit it using PGHE, and then take the new syntax and
> run as many
> versions as s/he wanted. And, the existence of the existing
> Stata10 graph
> editor (which would be retained in Stata11) would allow much
> more flexible
> editing.
>
> So, that's wishlist item #2 for Stata11. ;-)
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