Thomas,
Quoting Thomas Trikalinos <[email protected]>:
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.
This is what I meant in my earlier posting. Below n=128 is "ascii
proper",
i.e., official standard ascii characters. n=128 to 255 can vary from
scheme to scheme. Apparently ISO 8859-7 and windows-1253 are two
schemes
that handle Greek - see
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/unicode/greek.html
If you install one of these two fonts and change the Stata display
font to
use it, then when you display chars 128-255 you should get, along with
some
other stuff, the Greek alphabet.
Cheers,
Mark
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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School for Business and Regional Development
University of Wales, Bangor
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LL57 2DG Bangor
UK
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