Even for frequent graph users postings like this impose the burden of creating an analogue with another dataset to see exactly what the issue is. Simply, we don't have your data.
With the auto data, this command shows your difficulty:
graph bar turn trunk mpg , over(rep78) bargap(-30) nofill blabel(bar, j(left) color(white) format(%9.1f) size(2)position(center)) percentages
My main reaction is that your problem is self-inflicted, i.e. you make the bars overlap and then necessarily have less space to put the label.
You could use the Graph Editor to change the position of the -blabel()- to west. That does not seem to be available interactively and I am not clear that it improves things overall.
With the auto example a retreat to
graph bar turn trunk mpg , over(rep78) nofill blabel(bar, color(white) format(%9.1f) size(2) position(center)) percentages
produces a simpler and perfectly readable display. There's also scope for improving it by simplifying the legend. You can also increase -size()- above 2.
Nick
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René Geppert
the simplified graph code looks as follows:
graph bar l1lfvl l2lfvl l3lfvl if early == 1, over(counter) bargap(-30)
nofill blabel(bar, j(left) color(white) format(%9.1f) size(2)
position(center)) percentages
the counter runs from 1 to 6, that is the graph comprises 6*3=18 bars
because of the negative bar gap the (white) value labels inside each
first bar partially overlap to the second bar
for that reason i wanted to left-align the blabels which does work with
the justification (j(left)) option, but since bars are quite small the
result is marginal and not satisfactory because the left shift is too little
is there any way to even more left shift the value labels?
(i dont want to reduce the bargap or further reduce the lavel size, that
is below 2)
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