Jeff,
Thanks for the answer. This is just what I needed. As usual, the
answer from Stata Corp. is prompt and thorough.
Much appreciated.
Dale Plummer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Jeff Pitblado, StataCorp LP
> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:45 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: scheme modification to thicken axis lines
>
>
> 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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