st: RE: Adjusting economist scheme

["David Radwin" <dradwin@mprinc.com>]

Walt,

The documentation for -scheme-, official and otherwise (including
Stata-list), is fairly sparse. I recall that when I was trying to
customize a scheme a few years ago, the first edition of Michael
Mitchell's "A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics" was the most helpful
reference but not totally comprehensive. So I don't know if it will solve
your problem or even if it can be solved. 

One helpful aspect of the book is that you can download examples of other
schemes he created and learn by example, which sounds like your approach
so far. 

http://www.stata.com/bookstore/vgsg.html

David
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 5:02 AM
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> Subject: st: Adjusting economist scheme
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I want to use the economist scheme as the basis for a number of graphs I
> have to produce for a client.  However, I want to make some
> adjustments,  in particular the placement of notes -- I want them at the
> bottom left corner.  I studied the economist scheme file and found how
> to do this. I now want to go one step further and always use very small
> type for the notes, but this I can't do.  I changed "gsize note" to
> vsmall but this didn't work.  How can I change the scheme so that notes
> are always very small?  I know I can always add the option size(vsmall)
> to the notes command when I create the graph-- I want to avoid this by
> having it part of the scheme.  Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Walt

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