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Re: st: RE: control hight of superscript


From   Scott Merryman <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: control hight of superscript
Date   Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:50:15 -0500

Changing the -labstyle()- also changes the exponent gap.  However, the
labels are no longer centered on the tick marks.

scatter price mpg,            ///
   yscale(log)           ///
   ylab( 1e3 "10{sup:3}"         ///
         5e3 "5*10{sup:3}"   ///
         1e4 "10{sup:4}"     ///
         5e4 "5*10{sup:4}"   ///
         1e5 "10{sup:5}",  ///
         angle(0)  labstyle(smbody) labsize(*1.25) labgap(*6.5) )  ///
		 scheme(s1mono)

Scott

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've found that the choice of font can make a (to me surprising) difference here.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Maarten L. Buis
>
> I have been playing with -{sup:}- tag  to display exponents on the
> y-axis label. The reason is that I am using a logarithmic scale,
> and I feel that displaying the values in terms of powers of 10
> helps to see the structure of that scale.
>
> Anyhow, when I tried it the exponents appeared too high above the
> 10, especially if the graph is displayed in a smaller graph window,
> but it seems less severe when maximizing the graph window. This
> behaviour is reproduced in the graph below.
>
> *---------- begin example -----------
> sysuse auto, clear
>
> scatter price mpg,            ///
>    yscale(log)               ///
>    ylab( 1e3 "10{sup:3}"     ///
>          5e3 "5*10{sup:3}"   ///
>          1e4 "10{sup:4}"     ///
>          5e4 "5*10{sup:4}"   ///
>          1e5 "10{sup:5}",    ///
>          angle(0) )          ///
>    scheme(s1mono)
> *---------- end example ------------
>
> This leads to my question:
>
> Is there a way to control how high the exponent is placed above
> 10 (other than changing the window size)?
>

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