On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, R. Allan Reese wrote:
> ... I'll mention something noticed yesterday that I
> have yet to investigate. I have commands to draw a series of graphs
> with fixed ysize, then combine them into one display with fixed ysize
> that is the sum of the parts, and is 9.5 inches. I print the display
> from Stata and it is 9.5in high and 6.5in wide. The display is
> exported as .emf and read into Word 2000 by Insert/Picture/from file on
> a blank page. When that page is printed, the display is just over 8in
> high but there is a ruled line at the bottom of the page.
The ruled line turned out to be a reference line I had specified but which
was outside the range of Y values. That was my mistake, but I wonder if
it is helpful that options yline (and xline) do not implicitly widen the
plotted range. (*For StataCorp maybe to consider*). I had numerous
options, including
scatter y x, ylabel(,format(%4.2f) angle(0) labsize(*.6)) yli(0)
Another feature that strikes me as maybe not the best default is that
"graph combine" by default puts a border round the joined graphs, so they
print with obvious joins. Easily overcome: I'm using,
graph combine g1 g2 imargin(zero) graphregion(margin(zero)) ///
col(1) xsize(6.5) ysize(9.5)
R. Allan Reese Email: [email protected]
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