Re: st: RE: Adjusting economist scheme

["Data Analytics Corp." <walt@dataanalyticscorp.com>]

Hi,

Thanks all for the feedback.  I'm slowly picking away at the scheme 
file.   I created my own economist file and am slowly making changes 
there as I find lines that impact the style I want.  Documentation would 
help with this.

Thanks,

Walt

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On 4/11/2011 11:26 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
> Although David is basically right, I suggest that rummaging in the
> scheme for -s2color- might help. What about -textboxsize note-?
>
> Note that there's a fine balance here. If the choice is between
> "sparse documentation" and "better documentation", the election result
> is predictable. If the choice is between "better documentation that
> only a few people will read" and "some other stuff that many more
> people will use", it's not so clear-cut.
>
> It's a chicken-and-egg question. I remember vividly that once I
> learned on the release of Stata 8 that you could define your own
> schemes, I was convinced that I would do that one day, but I never
> have to date. Whether that would have been different if there had been
> 50 pages of manuals documenting schemes in total detail, I cannot tell
> you.
>
> Nick
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:13 PM, David Radwin<dradwin@mprinc.com>  wrote:
> > Walt,
> >
> > The documentation for -scheme-, official and otherwise (including
> > Stata-list), is fairly sparse. I recall that when I was trying to
> > customize a scheme a few years ago, the first edition of Michael
> > Mitchell's "A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics" was the most helpful
> > reference but not totally comprehensive. So I don't know if it will solve
> > your problem or even if it can be solved.
> >
> > One helpful aspect of the book is that you can download examples of other
> > schemes he created and learn by example, which sounds like your approach
> > so far.
> >
> > http://www.stata.com/bookstore/vgsg.html
> >
> > David
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> > > statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Data Analytics Corp.
> > > Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 5:02 AM
> > > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > > Subject: st: Adjusting economist scheme
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I want to use the economist scheme as the basis for a number of graphs I
> > > have to produce for a client.  However, I want to make some
> > > adjustments,  in particular the placement of notes -- I want them at the
> > > bottom left corner.  I studied the economist scheme file and found how
> > > to do this. I now want to go one step further and always use very small
> > > type for the notes, but this I can't do.  I changed "gsize note" to
> > > vsmall but this didn't work.  How can I change the scheme so that notes
> > > are always very small?  I know I can always add the option size(vsmall)
> > > to the notes command when I create the graph-- I want to avoid this by
> > > having it part of the scheme.  Any suggestions?
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