RE: st: bar graph axis color- frustrated

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

This isn't (meant to be) contentious, but the thread does underline that
none of half-a-dozen experienced Stata users knew the answer just like
that, including Michael Mitchell who has written an entire book on Stata
graphics. 

(I was asleep, but I wouldn't have known either.)

But the solution is documented and the tail statement in 

"yvaroptions(over_subopts) allows you to specify over_subopts for the
yvars.  This is seldom done."

appears to be quite correct. 

There is a fine line between answering all possible questions and
bloating the documentation further. Sometimes the longer your help
files, the less people are inclined to read through them. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Kieran McCaul

it's really buried away, isn't it.

Changing the look of the category axis is really something I would
expect people would want to do.  Perhaps the Graphics Manual could be
updated to show a few examples.



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