Re: st: question on local macros ina graph title

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

What embedded quotes are you referring to?

When you define

local title "Database Analysis"

the double quote characters " " do not become part of the macro. They
are just treated as delimiters for the string. Following precisely the
line above with

mac li

will show that. So, my comment remains as it was. Glad you solved your
problem, but it is not clear why what you did failed to work in the
first place.

Nick

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Data Analytics Corp.
<walt@dataanalyticscorp.com> wrote:
> Sounds like the embedded quotes were getting me the wrong answer.  It works
> now.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Walt
>
> On 4/11/2011 9:25 AM, Eric Booth wrote:
>>
>> <>
>>
>> Wrapping in graph titles (or axis labels, notes, captions, etc) occurs
>> when there are embedded
>> quotes in the title, so "Database Analysis" will not wrap, `" " Database"
>> "Analyses" "' will wrap.
>>
>> Modifying Maarten's example, here's the wrapping:
>>
>> *-------------- begin example ---------------
>> sysuse auto, clear
>> local title  " Database"  "Analysis"
>> forvalues i = 1/5 {
>>    scatter price mpg if rep78==`i', ///
>>            title("`title'")         ///
>>            name(gr`i', replace)
>> }
>> *--------------- end example ----------------
>>
>> - Eric
>>
>> __
>> Eric A. Booth
>> Public Policy Research Institute
>> Texas A&M University
>> ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu
>> Office: +979.845.6754
>>
>>
>> On Apr 11, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Maarten buis wrote:
>>
>>> --- On Mon, 11/4/11, Data Analytics Corp. 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?
>>>
>>> I cannot reproduce your problem. Can you change the example
>>> below such that it produces the behavior you reported?
>>>
>>> *-------------- begin example ---------------
>>> sysuse auto, clear
>>> local title "Database Analysis"
>>> forvalues i = 1/5 {
>>>    scatter price mpg if rep78==`i', ///
>>>            title("`title'")         ///
>>>            name(gr`i', replace)
>>> }
>>> *--------------- end example ----------------
>>>

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