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AW: st: wrapping axis labels in -graph hbar-


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   AW: st: wrapping axis labels in -graph hbar-
Date   Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:03:14 +0100

<> 

Any way to automate this solution? You said you had a "large number of
graphs"...


HTH
Martin

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Jeph Herrin
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010 15:00
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: st: wrapping axis labels in -graph hbar-

Of course. I think I used to know that.

thanks,
Jeph


Scott Merryman wrote:
> Like this?
> 
>  sysuse auto,clear
>  graph hbar mpg trunk turn, over(rep78, relabel(1 `""A Very Very Very"
> "Very Long Label""'))
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Jeph Herrin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm generating a large number of graphs, all of which are
>> horizontal bar graphs:
>>
>>  graph hbar var1 var2, over(group)
>>
>> My problem is that several -group- category labels are quite
>> long, so that the figure is compressed to the right to make
>> room.
>>
>> Ideally (that is, rather than chopping down and/or footnoting)
>> there would be a way to wrap these labels into two lines. Since
>> each -group- value has two bars, there is plenty of space for
>> two lines of text; however, I cannot find a way to wrap the
>> text, even if I manually break it up into fragments. Any
>> ideas?
>>
>> By the way, I have tried shrinking the labels:
>>
>>  graph hbar var1 var2, over(group, label(labsize(small)))
>>
>> but this doesn't solve the problem (and doesn't look very good).
>>
>> thanks,
>> Jeph
>>
>>
>>
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