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

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

Something like this works (since I know my labels are <40 chars):

 local relabels ""
 levelsof group, local(groups)
 foreach g in `groups' {
	local label : label group `g'
	local len : length label
	if `len'>20 {
		local p1 : piece 1 20 "`label'", nobreak
		local p2 : piece 2 20 "`label'", nobreak
		local relabels "`relabels' `g' `""`p1'" "`p2'"'" '"
	}
  }
  ...
  graph hbar var1 var2, over(group, relabel(`relabel'))


(where I have edited for clarity in a way that may have broken
 the code...)

cheers,
Jeph

Jeph Herrin wrote:
> 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
> >
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > 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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