This is indeed a nuisance when you want something
different from Stata's treatment here. The cross-reference
implied is to the thread started by Phil Ryan on
21 May. See e.g.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/lwgate/STATALIST/archives/statalist.0405/Author/article-740.html
The story there is that using the escape character
works only so far as the next program called, which
sees e.g. $US or $CA and misinterprets those
as references to global macros. The story there
also is that using SMCL provides an existing
work-around.
Patrick clearly flagged this as a question
for StataCorp, but it would seem 20 years too
late to undefine $ as indicating global macros.
Possibly StataCorp can define c($) as the dollar
symbol as a less cryptic alternative to {c S|}
or `=char(36)'. No idea how difficult that would
be.
Nick
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>
> This problem came up on the list a few weeks but I would like
> to ask Stata
> whether something can be done about this issue. Specifically,
> the problem is
> that, given a have variable whose label contains a dollar sign say
>
> . la var xrus "\$US per \$CA"
>
> and trying to plot it as either
>
> . twoway line xrus year
> . twoway line xrus year, ytitle("\$US per \$CA")
>
> causes the currency units to vanish from the y-axis title,
> leaving only "
> per " behind.
>
> This is a bug isn't it? Or a very unfortunate mis-feature
> IMO. It *should*
> be possible to print basic ASCII characters set in graphs.
> Can something be
> done about this, this is particularly troublesome for economists.
>
>
> Patrick Joly
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