Re: st: copy graph legend

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

Use a local macro for your legend definition.

Here's a dopey example:

sysuse auto, clear

local mylegend "legend(pos(3) col(1))"
local myytitle "Turn circle (ft) and trunk space (cu. ft)"

forval i = 1/5 {
	scatter turn trunk weight if rep78==`i', ///
	ytitle(`myytitle') subtitle(Repair record `i') `mylegend'
	more
}


On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Eric M. Uslaner <euslaner@umd.edu> wrote:

 I am generating a set of similar graphs and I don't like the legend
Stata automatically produces.  I spent considerable time formatting
the legend in the first graph.  If at all possible, I would like to
copy the legend and replace legends in graphs 2-4 with the legend I
created for graph 1.  I searched for help and could not find a
solution.  If I could recover the commands for the edited legend in
graph 1, I could redo the other graphs with the revised legend in the
command line since the rest of the graph is barely edited from what
Stata generates.  I have read the manual on legends--and larning all
of the comands would take a lot more time than editing each one.  I am
hoping (though not so optimistically) for a simple solution.

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