st: Controlling look of variable labels in onewayplot

[David Harless <dwharles@vcu.edu>]

In Stata Journal Volume 4(1) page 76, I saw the nice example using onewayplot in 
 Nick Cox's "Speaking Stata" column.  I am trying to use onewayplot but control 
how the "byvar" label looks.  My byvar is named dec_all and I've put in extra 
spaces to make the value labels line up a certain way -- at least in a 
fixed-width font:

. table dec_all
------------------------------
          dec_all |      Freq.
------------------+-----------
        <    3.77 |     14,665
    3.77-   11.67 |      4,228
   11.67-   38.75 |      2,208
   38.75-   50.08 |        689
   50.08-   60.23 |        502
   60.23-   76.93 |        491
   76.93-  140.19 |        410
  140.19-  248.67 |        347
  248.67-2,476.99 |        186
2,477.00<         |         22
------------------------------

I'd like to make the labels keep this approximate relationship when I used the 
variablelabels option in onewayplot, but when I issue the following command

onewayplot myvar , by(dec_all) stack  msize(*.75) ///
	variablelabels ytitle("")  ms(oh)

I find that
(i) my labels are partly cut-off (e.g. ".67-2,476.99" instead of 
"248.67-2,476.99") and
(ii) my labels are all right-justified against the y axis instead of looking 
something like they do in the table above.
Any suggestions on how to handle this?

Thanks,
Dave Harless



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