Re: st: Twoway-graph appears different in version 11 and version 12

[Alan Riley <ariley@stata.com>]

Dirk Enzmann (dirk.enzmann@uni-hamburg.de) reported a difference in
the positioning of a graph title between Stata 11 and Stata 12.
His original email follows my signature below.

We have reproduced the issue here and will fix it in a future update.
In the meantime, Dirk can work around this, as Scott Merryman suggested,
by adding the option -position(12)- to his overall graph -title()- option.


Alan
ariley@stata.com


> I can't find the reason why the following -twoway- syntax produces 
> graphs that look vastly different in Stata 12 as opposed to Stata 11 (in 
> Stata 11.2 it appears as intended whereas in Stata 12.1 it does not).
> 
> Note: If you run the complete demonstration below, two files (graphs 
> created by my own Stata versions 11.2 and 12.1) will be copied into your 
> temp-directory and erased afterwards (but it will not overwrite files 
> that exist already) - I hope the longer line containing 
> "title("Verhaltensprobleme ..." will not get broken in the email sent:
> 
> * --- Start Stata demonstration ----
> 
> global testurl = "http://www.ottersbek.de/Stata/";
> use "${testurl}testdat.dta", clear
> 
> twoway (scatter behavior gewalt if black==0, mcolor(blue) ///
>                 msymbol(circle_hollow) jitter(2) jitterseed(1)) ///
>        (scatter behavior gewalt if black==1, mcolor(red)  ///
>                 msymbol(circle_hollow) jitter(1) jitterseed(1)) ///
>        (line pr_beh gewalt if black==0, sort lcolor(blue)) ///
>        (line pr_beh gewalt if black==1, sort lcolor(red)), ///
>        ytitle("Wahrscheinlichkeit von Verhaltensproblemen", ///
>               size(small)) ///
>        xtitle("Gewalteinstellung", size(medsmall)) ///
>        xscale(range(10 90)) xlabel(10(20)90) ///
>        note("Linien: aus logistischer Regression geschätzt" ///
> 	        "Punkte: beobachtete Werte") ///
>        legend(order(1 "weiß" 2 "schwarz") ///
>        title("Ethnizität:  ", size(medsmall) position(9))) ///
>  title("Verhaltensprobleme in Abhängigkeit von Ethniz. u. 
> Gewalteinst.", ///
> 	     size(medium)) ///
>        name(L11_LogReg, replace)
> 
> * Copy demo .gph-files into tempdir:
> local pwdir = c(pwd)
> local tmpdir = c(tmpdir)
> cd "`tmpdir'"
> copy "${testurl}L11_version11.gph" "L11_version11.gph"
> copy "${testurl}L11_version12.gph" "L11_version12.gph"
> cd "`pwdir'"
> 
> /* Graph created with Stata version 11.2
>   (Stata/SE 11.2 for Windows (32-bit) Born 16 Feb 2012): */
> graph use "`tmpdir'/L11_version11.gph", name("L11_version11", replace)
> /* Graph created with Stata version 12.1
>   (Stata/SE 12.1 for Windows (64-bit x86-64) Revision 20 Jun 2012): */
> graph use "`tmpdir'/L11_version12.gph", name("L11_version12", replace)
> 
> * Erase demo .gph-files:
> local tmpdir = c(tmpdir)
> erase "`tmpdir'/L11_version11.gph"
> erase "`tmpdir'/L11_version12.gph"
> 
> * --- End Stata demonstration ----
> 
> My operating system: Windows 7 (64 bit)
> 
> Dirk
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