st: re: caption on a bar graph

[Christopher Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

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The code that Dorothy provided has two problems---the title is  
partially chopped off above the graph, and the caption collides with  
the category labels.

The problem obviously has to do with the legend. If you comment out  
the legend definition, the default legend works fine. Likewise if you  
change cols(1) to cols(2), the legend is all there and the above  
problems disappear. So what is needed, it seems, is some way to make  
the single-column legend smaller.

In fact this also avoids the problem:

legend(cols(1) span  position(3) /* stack */ region(lcolor(white))  ...

but takes up too much horizontal real estate, perchance.

There is obviously something wrong with the mechanism that figures out  
how tall the graph must be, given the legend. Suppressing the xsize  
and ysize parameters does not help.

Kit Baum   |   Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin   |   http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
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An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata   |   http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html

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