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Re: st: Greek Alphabet?


From   "Alan Neustadtl" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Greek Alphabet?
Date   Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:58:00 -0500

Quick and dirty, but this shows the characters you can use:

foreach num of numlist 32(1)255  {
               display `num' "=" char(`num')
       }

Best,
Alan


On 12/12/06, Robert A Yaffee <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
How does one obtain the complete Greek alphabet with Stata?
  Thanks,
    Bob Yaffee

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School of Social Work
New York University

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----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Blasnik <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:06 am
Subject: Re: st: Re: Tip - Special characters in labels, titles of graphs &c

> The char() function can return different results depending on your
> font (and
> therefore OS).  You can get a quick listing of what is available by
> changing
> your font in the Stata results window to one that shows upper ASCII
> characters (rather than just ?) and then :
>
> forval i=123(1)255 {
> di "`i': " char(`i')
> }
>
> M Blasnik
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Airey" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:34 AM
> Subject: re: st: Re: Tip - Special characters in labels, titles of
> graphs &c
>
>
> >> The char(178) doesn't work on my Mac. Char(181) does.
> >>
> >> local mu=char(181)
> >> local squared=char(179)
> >> sysuse auto
> >> graph tw scatter weight mpg , ///
> >> title("here is mu: `mu', here is mpg squared: mpg`squared'")
> >
> > Oops. Neither does char(179) work.
>
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