Re: st: How to draw axes in the interior of the plot?

[Scott Merryman <scott.merryman@gmail.com>]

You can use yline() and xline() to recreate the axes and use
-scatteri- for the tick marks and labels.

For example (using Ben Jann's -center-):

sysuse auto, clear	
center mpg price
scatter c_p c_m ,yscale(off) xscale(off) legend(off) ylabel(,nogrid)
graphregion(color(white))  ///
  || scatteri 0 -10 "-10" 0 10 "10" 0 20 "20", mlabpos(6) ms(none)
mlabcolor(black) ///
  || scatteri 0 -10 "|" 0 10 "|" 0 20 "|" , mlabpos(0) msy(none)
mlabcolor(black) ///
  || scatteri -5000 0 "-5000" 5000 0 "5000" 10000 0 "10000",
mlabpos(9) ms(none) mlabcolor(black) ///
  || scatteri -5000 0 "`=char(151)'"  5000  0 "`=char(151)'" 10000 0
"`=char(151)'",  mlabpos(0) ms(none) mlabcolor(black) ///
   yline(0, lc(black)) xline(0, lc(black))


Scott

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Roger Newson <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hello All
>
> I suspect that I am being very stupid today, and missing something that
> should be obvious. I have a colleague who wants to draw axes in the interior
> of the plot region in a Stata graph (as most people do when displaying the
> complex or Argand plane with 0+0*i at the centre), complete with tick marks
> and labels on whatever side the user chooses. However, I have been looking
> through the Stata Version 11 .pdf manuals and the Stata Version 10 hardcopy
> manuals, and I cannot find any reference to this possibility, although there
> is a lot about putting axes on the left, right, top or bottom of the graph
> region, and the possibility of up to 9 axes (presumably to allow outside and
> inside labelled ticks at the left, right, top and bottom).
>
> Is there a way to do this in Stata graphics? I have checked all the axis
> options and the added_line_options, but can't seem to find a way.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Roger
>
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