st: graph plot region size control

[Laura Gibbons <gibbonsl@u.washington.edu>]

I have a similar problem to the one below:

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2003-12/msg00329.html

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:14:29 +0100 Ulrich Kohler <kohler@wz-berlin.de>
wrote:
> I have two graphs, produced with -graph hbar- and want to combine
> them underneath each other in one single graph.
> What I want to have is [to have the y axes line up visually]
> However, since the labels of the second graph are much shorter than
> those of the first, I end up with a picture like this:
>                  +-----------------------------------+
>          Romania |###################                |
...
>   United Kingdom |##                                 |
>                  +-----------------------------------+
>            +-----------------------------------------+
>         EU |##                                       |
...
>         CC |#######                                  |
>            +-----------------------------------------+
>
> Unfortunately I couldn't found a way to control the starting coordinate
> of the numerical y-axis in the graph-region
I agree.  I have reported this problem to Statacorp.  The plotting
region is determined by the shape and size of labels in the surrounding
graph region.  Just fixing the format of labels does not correct this,
since the label mechanism determines the length according to the value
and then draws it left-justified.

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I, too, had tried reformatting the labels, without success.
I tried setting the same aspect in the graphs, and same xsize and ysize, 
but the plot regions still varied in size.

Has anyone come up with a solution since then?

many thanks,

Laura
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