Re: st: bar graph axis color- frustrated

["Michael N. Mitchell" <Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com>]

Dear All

  As a related point to Nick's comment, I think that these situations show the value of 
Statalist... tapping the collective smarts of people who came up with two different 
solutions and a great discussion for a somewhat rare problem. Sometimes the best 
"documentation" is asking some smart people. Nevertheless, I think this is an interesting 
enough situation that I have noted this for a future revision of VGSG and also will create 
a "Stata tidbit of the week" on this in the meanwhile.

Michael N. Mitchell
Data Management Using Stata      - http://www.stata.com/bookstore/dmus.html
A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics - http://www.stata.com/bookstore/vgsg.html
Stata tidbit of the week         - http://www.MichaelNormanMitchell.com

p.s. Many thanks for the kind comments on VGSG!

On 2010-06-11 3.03 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
> This isn't (meant to be) contentious, but the thread does underline that
> none of half-a-dozen experienced Stata users knew the answer just like
> that, including Michael Mitchell who has written an entire book on Stata
> graphics.
>
> (I was asleep, but I wouldn't have known either.)
>
> But the solution is documented and the tail statement in
>
> "yvaroptions(over_subopts) allows you to specify over_subopts for the
> yvars.  This is seldom done."
>
> appears to be quite correct.
>
> There is a fine line between answering all possible questions and
> bloating the documentation further. Sometimes the longer your help
> files, the less people are inclined to read through them.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Kieran McCaul
>
> it's really buried away, isn't it.
>
> Changing the look of the category axis is really something I would
> expect people would want to do.  Perhaps the Graphics Manual could be
> updated to show a few examples.
>
>
>
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