Plummer, Dale <[email protected]> asks about writing a custom scheme
to handle a style change to axes:
> In our shop, we often find ourselves producing graphs with a command
> like this:
>
> twoway (scatter systolic age), xscale(lwidth(medium))
> yscale(lwidth(medium)) ///
> xlabel(,tlwidth(medium)) ylabel(,tlwidth(medium))
>
> The xscale, yscale, xlabel, and ylabel options are added to thicken the
> axis and tick lines a little bit. I would like to define a custom
> scheme that includes this thickening by default. I have been able to
> make a custom scheme with other changes but this one has eluded me. Can
> someone help?
This will require a new linestyle for axes, here is how I did it:
***** BEGIN: linestyle-plummer_axis.style
*! version 1.0.0 06jul2004
sequence 102100
set width scheme plummer_axis
set color scheme foreground
set pattern scheme foreground
***** END: linestyle-plummer_axis.style
The above is a modified (and renamed) copy of linestyle-foreground.style. The
"set width" refers to a "linestyle" in the scheme, so now I can refer to
plummer_axis within my scheme file:
***** BEGIN: scheme-plummer.style
* scheme-plummer.scheme
*! version 1.0.0 06jul2004
#include s2color
sequence 102150
label "Dale Plummer's scheme"
linestyle axis plummer_axis
linestyle axis_withgrid plummer_axis
linestyle tick plummer_axis
linewidth plummer_axis medium
***** END: scheme-plummer.style
The first 2 linestyle make changes to the linestyles for all axes, and the
third changes the linestyles for all major ticks. The linestyle for minor
ticks is governed by "minortick". The last line defines "plummer_axis" to mean medium for linewidths.
--Jeff
[email protected]
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