twoway line dtosynth_10000 year, lw(medthick) lc(black)) ///
|| line dtosynth_?? dtosynth_??? dtosynth_???? year , lw(vthin ..)
lc(gs14 ..) ///
|| , legend(off)
Scott
On 8/24/07, Davide Cantoni <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to draw a line graph with several plots, 65 to be precise,
> on Stata 9.2 for Mac. Is there any maximum number of options that one
> can specify in terms of lcolor() or lwidth()? My impression is that
> Stata accepts only options for up to 20 plots, because the following
> code runs as it should:
>
> twoway (line dtosynth_10000 year, lw(medthick) lc(black)) ///
> (line dtosynth_65 dtosynth_69 dtosynth_90 dtosynth_144 /// 4
> dtosynth_177 dtosynth_197 dtosynth_253 dtosynth_300 /// 8
> dtosynth_303 dtosynth_321 dtosynth_422 dtosynth_477 /// 12
> dtosynth_483 dtosynth_535 dtosynth_559 dtosynth_574 /// 16
> dtosynth_599 dtosynth_618 dtosynth_627 dtosynth_2203 year /// 20
> , lw(vthin vthin vthin vthin vthin vthin vthin vthin vthin vthin /// 10
> vthin vthin vthin vthin vthin vthin vthin vthin vthin vthin) /// 20
> lc(gs14 gs14 gs14 gs14 gs14 gs14 gs14 gs14 gs14 gs14 /// 10
> gs14 gs14 gs14 gs14 gs14 gs14 gs14 gs14 gs14 gs14)) /// 20
> , legend(off)
>
> [Interpretation: I want one line graph to be bold and thick, and all
> other 65 comparison units to be very thin and grey. The numbers after
> /// just help me keeping track of the number of plots]
>
> But as soon as I add one more y-variable to be plotted against year
> (let alone 45 more) and add the corresponding values for lwidth and
> lcolor, Stata does not obey my lcolor() and lwidth() options any more,
> but makes all 21 lines in different colors and standard thickness.
>
> Is there any way to avoid this, or to write the code above in a
> smarter way? Thanks for your attention,
>
> Davide
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