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st: RE: RE: Re: Crowded axis title and labels


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: Re: Crowded axis title and labels
Date   Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:12:23 -0000

see also 

SJ-4-3  gr0006  . . . . . . Stata tip 10: Fine control of axis title positions
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  P. Ryan and N. Winter
        Q3/04   SJ 4(3):354--355                                 (no commands)
        tips for controlling axis title positions

Nick 
[email protected] 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: 08 January 2005 15:01
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: Re: Crowded axis title and labels
> 
> 
> Comments on various levels: 
> 
> 1. In any paper I was reviewing or editing I 
> would strongly suggest changing labels like 
> 10.0 to 50.0 to 10 to 50, if that is the 
> problem. The extra ".0" is not informative
> or decorative. 
> 
> 2. Try the option -ysc(titlegap())-. 
> 
> 3. As in point #1 I would always recommend 
> plotting time literally for this kind 
> of data. Your last gap of 
> 7 years should not be plotted as equivalent 
> to the other gaps of 5 years. Many texts 
> on graphics make this point, most recently 
> Howard Wainer's "Graphic discovery", 
> Princeton U.P. 2005. 
> 
> Nick 
> [email protected] 
> 
> Ramani Gunatilaka
> 
> > I am trying to plot income shares by quintile for five survey years.
> > My problem is that the graph that the following command 
> > generates places the y-axis title too close to the y-axis so 
> > that it gets super-imposed on the axis labels and makes the 
> > graph looks messy.
> > I have looked at the graphics manual and experimented with 
> > the options graphregion, marginstyle, position, ring and 
> > justification, but have not been able to solve the problem.
>  
> > twoway (line Quintile1 Quintile2 Quintile3 Quintile4 
> > Quintile5 Year), ylabel(0(10.0)50.0) ytitle( "Share of Income 
> > %") xlabel(1 "1980" 2 "1985" 3 "1990" 4 "1995" 5 "2002") 
> > xtitle( "Year" ) leg(rows(1)) 
> 

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