st: graph combine with (non-standard) one legend

[<S.Jenkins@lse.ac.uk>]

A colleague asked me the following:

"I've got 3 Stata graphs which will all have the same legend. I'd like
to display them in a 2x2 array, with the graphs in 3 of the cells and
the legend on its own in the fourth. Does anyone know if it's possible
to do this - and, if so, how?"

My response:

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sysuse auto

* graph with a legend 

tw (scatter headroom weight)(scatter price weight), saving(junk4,
replace)

* -findit grc1leg-, and install it. "graph combine one legend" 

grc1leg junk4.gph junk4.gph junk4.gph, row(2) legendfrom(junk4.gph)
position(3) ring(0)

* gets you most of the way?  Could then move legend down using Graph
Editor?

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I also commented:

One strategy might be to

(a) do the 3 graphs with "legend(off)"
(b) add a fourth graph that is a version of one of the others, except
that you add options that: ask for no plotting of axes; all plot
elements invisible (depends on graph type); use legend location option
to put it in the middle.

Other things might be easier, depending on how complicated your legend
is.

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Any suggestions about how to best achieve the questioner's goals,
preferably without Graph Editor intervention?

thanks
Stephen
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Stephen P. Jenkins <s.jenkins@lse.ac.uk>

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