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Re: st: RE: control hight of superscript
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Scott Merryman <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: control hight of superscript
Date
Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:50:15 -0500
Changing the -labstyle()- also changes the exponent gap. However, the
labels are no longer centered on the tick marks.
scatter price mpg, ///
yscale(log) ///
ylab( 1e3 "10{sup:3}" ///
5e3 "5*10{sup:3}" ///
1e4 "10{sup:4}" ///
5e4 "5*10{sup:4}" ///
1e5 "10{sup:5}", ///
angle(0) labstyle(smbody) labsize(*1.25) labgap(*6.5) ) ///
scheme(s1mono)
Scott
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've found that the choice of font can make a (to me surprising) difference here.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Maarten L. Buis
>
> I have been playing with -{sup:}- tag to display exponents on the
> y-axis label. The reason is that I am using a logarithmic scale,
> and I feel that displaying the values in terms of powers of 10
> helps to see the structure of that scale.
>
> Anyhow, when I tried it the exponents appeared too high above the
> 10, especially if the graph is displayed in a smaller graph window,
> but it seems less severe when maximizing the graph window. This
> behaviour is reproduced in the graph below.
>
> *---------- begin example -----------
> sysuse auto, clear
>
> scatter price mpg, ///
> yscale(log) ///
> ylab( 1e3 "10{sup:3}" ///
> 5e3 "5*10{sup:3}" ///
> 1e4 "10{sup:4}" ///
> 5e4 "5*10{sup:4}" ///
> 1e5 "10{sup:5}", ///
> angle(0) ) ///
> scheme(s1mono)
> *---------- end example ------------
>
> This leads to my question:
>
> Is there a way to control how high the exponent is placed above
> 10 (other than changing the window size)?
>
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