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Fwd: st: Greek characters in graph titles


From   Thomas Trikalinos (.Mac) <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Fwd: st: Greek characters in graph titles
Date   Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:41:22 +0300

Actually, you may get some greek Letters (capital Pi , capital sigma, mu) used for standard mathematical notation using the _char(n)_ string function, where n=1 to n=255. The function returns ASCII characters. You can easily check which letter corresponds to what number, using something like:

. forvalues i = 1(1)255 {
. local character = char(`i')
. di "for n=`i', ASCII char = `character'"
. }

Then, if you need capital Delta for example set a proper local macro:

. local delta = char(198) // in my Mac at least

and then you can use the character in titles etc:

. sysuse auto
. gr two scatter mpg rep78, ytitle("The letter is the greek Delta: `delta'")

Well I trust you have better use for _`delta'_ than this example.

Cheers

Tom



Begin forwarded message:


From: Thomas Trikalinos <[email protected]> (.Mac)
Date: July 21, 2004 16:18:41 EEST
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Greek characters in graph titles
Reply-To: [email protected]

I gave up long ago.

Tom

On Jul 21, 2004, at 14:15, D.Christodoulou wrote:

Dear Statalisters,

Apparently, Stata does not allow Greek characters. Is that the case ?
I attempted to insert some greek characters from the Do-File editor in a
graph-title
and the result was dissapointing.

Is there a way to do this, or shall I give up trying.
many thanks in advance,
Dimitris

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Dimitris Christodoulou
Teaching and Research Associate
School for Business and Regional Development
University of Wales, Bangor
Hen Coleg
LL57 2DG Bangor
UK
e-mail: [email protected]
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