RE: st: Special character in a plot's legend

["MA V" <ma_v@hotmail.com>]

Thanks to all of you that replied to this question. I think all the graphs 
with the ASCII symbols are useful and look great. I am still hvaing trouble, 
though, finding a font that has the "sigma" (lower case) letter...
Do you have any suggestions of which font should I use for my plots?
Thanks!
MA




> From: "MA V" <ma_v@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: Special character in a plot's legend
> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:07:24 +0000
>
> Hi--
> I am having some trouble adding a special character to a legend in a plot. 
> Following the suggestion from a previous post, what I am doing is:
> local sigma=char(228)
> twoway histogram sig, den || spike max true, by(X)  legend(label(2 "True")) 
> yti(Density) xti("`sigma' for sets")
>
> But, only a blank space appears where the character should be (in the 
> legend).
>
> I also tried
> twoway histogram sig, den || spike max true, by(X)  legend(label(2 "True")) 
> yti(Density) xti("`char(228)")
> but it didn't work...
>
> I also read that this might happen for some fonts so I tried the same thing 
> after changing the graph preferences to "Arial" and "Times New Roman" but 
> this also didn't work.
>
> Any idea of what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Also, is there any way of adding subscripts in a legend?
>
> Thanks,
> MA
>
> Note: I am using Stata9 for MAC
>
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