Others may have more efficient ways of doing this, but for whatever it's worth, here's my solution.
Define the first graph without a legend, that is legend(off).
Define the second graph with a legend (default or define it as you like in terms of position, etc).
Next combine the two.
What follows is a piece of code to graph Lorenze curves and transformed Lorenz curves and then combine the two in one graph. Note that the x axis is common to both.
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twoway line cumx95 cumx90 cumx85 cumpop cumpop, ylabel(0(0.2)1.0) ytitle( "Cumulative Share of Expenditure") xlabel(0(0.2)1.0) xtitle( "Cumulative Share of Population" ) title( "Lorenz Curves, 1985-96") leg(off) clpattern(shortdash_dot dash solid)
graph save Lorenz, replace
sleep 3000
twoway line comp95 comp90 comp85 cumpop, ylabel(0(0.1)0.35) ytitle( "Line of Equality - Cumulative Consumption Share" )xlabel(0(0.2)1.0) xtitle( "Cumulative Share of Population" )title( "Transformed Lorenz Curves, 1985-96") leg(rows(1))clpattern(shortdash_dot dash solid)
graph save Lordiff, replace
sleep 3000
gr combine Lorenz.gph Lordiff.gph, col(1)
log close
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Even though I did this, I found the resulting combined graph's y axes were too short relative to the x axes. I couldn't figure out how to fix this. If you have any ideas, I would appreciate them.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Ramani
"Steven Stillman (LMPG)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> In stata 8, when combining multiple graphs that have the same legend is
> it
> possible to have only one legend included on the combined graph. Thanks,
> Steve
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