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Re: st: Labels in spmap
From
Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Labels in spmap
Date
Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:07:49 -0500
Alexis, to simulate two lines labels, one can overlay two scatterplots
without markers, one having labels above and another below the
'imaginary' markers.
See example here:
do http://radyakin.org/statalist/2013121601/twolinelabs.do
produces:
http://radyakin.org/statalist/2013121601/twolinelabs.png
Best, Sergiy Radyakin
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Alexis Captanian <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Statalist,
>
> I'm trying to fit labels into regions of a choropleth map, but many of
> the labels are spilling out of their respective regions and
> overlapping with each other. I would like to solve this problem by
> making some labels appear as two lines, but I do not know how to do
> this. I'm using spmap in Stata 11.2 on a Mac.
>
> For example, instead of:
>
> Los Angeles
>
> I would like the label to appear:
>
> Los
> Angeles
>
> Decreasing the text size did not solve the overlap problem.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm new to Stata so I
> apologize if this is extremely elementary. I searched the archives and
> other resources but didn't find an answer.
>
> Thank you very much,
> Alexis Captanian
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