Re: st: Special character

["Julien D." <Sniper@free.fr>]

Ok, thank you for your help, I achieve to succed to inesrt the sign 
"greater than or equal", but it was not easy....

This sign IS NOT a traditional windows ASCII character, also -asciiplot- 
from SSC dosn't work unfortunately.

I used this method, using Fontcreator:

1. Download a truetype font editor from the internet
2. Copy your favourite font and load it into the editor
3. Pick a character you never use - say q
4. Replace this character with the >= sign, which you can get from the 
extended ascii character set
5. Save the modified font
6. Tell Stata to use your new font for graphs (in Prefs/Graph Preferences)
7. Type, for example, -xtitle("a q b")- in your graph and "a >= b" will 
appear.

...and it works....

Thanks to all for your help : )




Sergiy Radyakin a e'crit :

> Technically the character "" is not a part of ASCII, but the codes
> you are looking for are 242 and 243, and they have different meanings,
> depending on the font being used. Codes after 127 are different
> depending on the codepage, so your program might produce different
> output on different computers.
> 242 and 243 are rendered as you wish with the Terminal font on Windows.
>
> Also see the "Character Map" application, which was is with Windows
> (since version 1.03???) for the codes.
>
> Is there any way to change the font in the output window from the program?
>
> Best,
>    Sergiy Radyakin
>
> On 2/6/08, Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > --  "Julien D." wrote:
> > > I am using Kaplan Meier (sts graph) with risktable instruction like
> > > this...
> > >
> > >  risktable ( ,order( 1  "< 10" 2 ">= 10"  ))
> > >
> > > and I would like to display in the graphic table a "�" symbol
> > > instead of
> > > ">="..
> > >
> > > I tried the method `=char(XXX)' but I m not sur that this character
> > > exist in ASCII...
> > I have no idea what the "�" symbol is, but you can get a list of all
> > ascii characters with -asciiplot- downloadable from -ssc- (in Stata
> > type -ssc describe asciiplot- and -ssc install asciiplot-)
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Maarten
> >
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