Re: st: Automatically increasing graph hight to accommodate longnotes?

["Raymond P. Guiteras" <rpguiteras@gmail.com>]

Hi Maarten,

Thank you very much for your pointer to Mr. Wiggins's talk. I think that 
will be very helpful for standardizing my graphs.

However, unless I am missing something, I don't think it provides 
guidance as to how to solve my particular problem. That is, I can use a 
scheme to increase my graph height to some fixed number Y, but what I 
would really like to do is have Y vary based on the length of the note. 
As I mentioned, I can store the length of the note (either number of 
characters or number of lines) in local macros using my little auto-wrap 
code below.

Is there a standard height for each line of a note? If I knew that, 
perhaps a solution would be to increase the graph height by that amount 
for each line after the second one (the standard graph permits 2 lines 
of notes before you run past the boundary).

Once I figure that out, I will definitely incorporate it into a scheme!

Best,
Raymond

Maarten buis wrote:

> --- "Raymond P. Guiteras" <rpguiteras@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I often append very long notes to Stata graphs and would like to 
> > increase the graph height to accommodate these notes. This is fairly 
> > straightforward on a case-by-case basis using --ysize()--. However, I
> >
> > would like to be slightly more efficient by somehow automating this 
> > process, so that it is not necessary to fiddle with the argument of
> > the --ysize()-- command should the length of the note change.
> >
> > Does anyone have suggestions for how to proceed?
> >
> > It may be useful to mention that I can store the number of lines the 
> > note takes up in a local macro (e.g. `b' in the sample code below).
> Vince Wiggins gave a talk titled "Scheming your way to consistent
> graphs" at the UK Stata Users' Group Meeting in 2006 that might be
> useful. You can download the talk at:
> http://www.stata.com/meeting/12uk/abstracts.html
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
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