No. 
label def Coverage ... 2 `""Govt." "programs""' ...
generates an Invalid Syntax error.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 6:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: RE: percent format
Breaking labels into two lines was discussed
about 3 weeks ago: 
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-05/msg00712.html
Is that what you want? 
Nick 
[email protected] 
Frank de Libero
> 
> The reason for -yscale(off)- points to a limitation of value labels:
> having a label break across two (or more) lines. Originally I had a
> value label of 
> "Government programs" but that took up too much space so I 
> changed it to
> "Govt. programs", but that wasn't acceptable. -yscale(off)- 
> was used so
> the label could be on two lines.
> 
> From my view, being able to put value labels on more than one line is
> about a 2 on a ten-scale of desirability in Stata, but it would be a
> nice touch.
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