Re: st: Re: Tip - Special characters in labels, titles of graphs &c

[Adrian Mander <Adrian.Mander@mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk>]

A plug for some code I wrote that produces pretty output instead of 
the suggestion below

ssc install ascii

then just type

ascii

to see all the interesting characters available.

cheers
Ade

At 15:06 12/12/2006, Michael Blasnik wrote:

> 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" <david.airey@Vanderbilt.Edu>
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> 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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