Thanks, Kit. Your email helped me solve the problem, by adding a
symysize(0.5) to the legend code.
The problem of the title seemes to be a problem of the display window
only -- when I save the graph as .emf, the saved version includes the
entire title.
Best,
Dorothy
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Christopher Baum <[email protected]> wrote:
> <>
> The code that Dorothy provided has two problems---the title is partially
> chopped off above the graph, and the caption collides with the category
> labels.
>
> The problem obviously has to do with the legend. If you comment out the
> legend definition, the default legend works fine. Likewise if you change
> cols(1) to cols(2), the legend is all there and the above problems
> disappear. So what is needed, it seems, is some way to make the
> single-column legend smaller.
>
> In fact this also avoids the problem:
>
> legend(cols(1) span position(3) /* stack */ region(lcolor(white)) ...
>
> but takes up too much horizontal real estate, perchance.
>
> There is obviously something wrong with the mechanism that figures out how
> tall the graph must be, given the legend. Suppressing the xsize and ysize
> parameters does not help.
>
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