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Re: st: Plotting symbols: plus and cross
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Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Plotting symbols: plus and cross
Date
Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:38:34 +0100 (BST)
--- On Wed, 13/10/10, Allan Reese (Cefas) wrote:
> Is there a history or explanation why Stata's + and x
> plotting symbols look asymmetric and hand-drawn?
>
> I thought it was my eyes or the screen but enclosing the x
> with a square shows bits poking out.
I see what you mean when looking at the graph in Stata, but
when I export it to .eps the asymmetry disappears.
This is not much of an explanation, it is rather an
additional observation.
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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