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Re: st: question on local macros ina graph title


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: question on local macros ina graph title
Date   Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:31:02 +0100

I am glad that you got it to work, but it's not clear why that makes a
difference!

For "Maartin" read "Maarten".

Nick

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Data Analytics Corp.
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Maartin's example worked.  I needed to use
>
> title("`title'")
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Walt
>
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>
> Walter R. Paczkowski, Ph.D.
> Data Analytics Corp.
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>
> On 4/11/2011 9:03 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
>>
>> That should work. Something else is interfering. Look for some exotic
>> characters where the space should be.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Data Analytics Corp.
>> <[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm going to produce a series of graphs in which I want the fist line of
>>> the
>>> title to always be "Database Analysis".  I created a local macro as
>>>
>>>    local title "Database Analysis"
>>>
>>> and then in the graph commands I used
>>>
>>>    title(`title')
>>>
>>> But the title came out as
>>>
>>>    Database
>>>    Analysis
>>>
>>> I want the two words Database and Analysis on one line, the first, of
>>> each
>>> graph.  How do I specify the macro to do this?

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