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

[Jeph Herrin <jeph.herrin@yale.edu>]

Large number of graphs, but the same -over()- option for
each, so can code manually if needed. But would be nice to
store in a macro.

J


Martin Weiss wrote:
> <> 
>
> Any way to automate this solution? You said you had a "large number of
> graphs"...
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
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> Von: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Jeph Herrin
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010 15:00
> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> 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 <junk@spandrel.net> 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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