re: st: serset limits are wimpy

[David Airey <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu>]

Maybe I've not explained myself. If you do a graph twoway command:

graph tw (line y x) (line y2 x) ... (line y10 x),

where for certain reasons you cannot -by- the graph across 10 groups,

each of those line plots constitutes a serset in Stata (set of data 
held in memory by Stata to use in a graph).

Now, ANYTIME you have > 99 sersets you will break Stata's abilities to 
graph what you want. So in the graph command above, if you tried to 
combine 9 graphs you'd be fine. But if you try to combine 10, Stata 
fails.

To me this seems like a very low limit of sersets for graph combine. A 
full page graphic with 20, 10-line graphs is completely readable when 
saved to .eps format and printed at high resoultion (e.g., publication 
quality). Yet I cannot do this within Stata because of the serset 
limitation of 99.

-Dave

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