Comments on various levels:
1. In any paper I was reviewing or editing I
would strongly suggest changing labels like
10.0 to 50.0 to 10 to 50, if that is the
problem. The extra ".0" is not informative
or decorative.
2. Try the option -ysc(titlegap())-.
3. As in point #1 I would always recommend
plotting time literally for this kind
of data. Your last gap of
7 years should not be plotted as equivalent
to the other gaps of 5 years. Many texts
on graphics make this point, most recently
Howard Wainer's "Graphic discovery",
Princeton U.P. 2005.
Nick
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Ramani Gunatilaka
> I am trying to plot income shares by quintile for five survey years.
> My problem is that the graph that the following command
> generates places the y-axis title too close to the y-axis so
> that it gets super-imposed on the axis labels and makes the
> graph looks messy.
> I have looked at the graphics manual and experimented with
> the options graphregion, marginstyle, position, ring and
> justification, but have not been able to solve the problem.
> twoway (line Quintile1 Quintile2 Quintile3 Quintile4
> Quintile5 Year), ylabel(0(10.0)50.0) ytitle( "Share of Income
> %") xlabel(1 "1980" 2 "1985" 3 "1990" 4 "1995" 5 "2002")
> xtitle( "Year" ) leg(rows(1))
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