st: Formaatin the labels of the histogram-bars ?

[Ernest Berkhout <ernestb@seo.fee.uva.nl>]

Hi all,

is there a possibility to format the labels that can be stuck on the bars 
of a histogram, just as it can be done with a bar-graph?

To illuminate: in a bar-graph one can label a categorie of bars with the 
option:
-blabel(bar, position(outside) format(%3.1f))-

so the labels (in this case, percentages of a distribution) are formatted 
as numbers with only one decimal digit.
Unfortunately something similar doesn't seem to be possible with 
histograms. I only get as far as:

-histogram dag, discrete width(1) start(1) percent addlabels addlabopts( 
mlabsize(vsmall))-

and then there is no possibility to format the labels. This results in 
rather ugly labeling, with for some labels 2 decimal digits and for others 
3 dec.digits!

Am I just ignorant, or is it realy impossible to do this? (and if so, what 
would be the rationale behind the current way of labeling ?)




Ernest Berkhout
Stichting voor Economisch Onderzoek
Universiteit van Amsterdam

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