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st: RE: Re: Lorenz curve graph options: can't get legend to work


From   "philippe van kerm" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Re: Lorenz curve graph options: can't get legend to work
Date   Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:27:18 +0200

>Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:52:02 +0100
>From: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
>Subject: st: RE: Re: Lorenz curve graph options: can't get 
>legend to work
>
>Philippe underestimates his own program!
>
>One of the small problems here is that -glcurve- 
>internally uses -legend(order())-, but to 
>overwrite that you just need to use the 
>same. At the same time you can label 
>the extra diagonal and fix the line patterns. 

Well spotted Nick!  

I'm not sure now why it was coded this way in -glcurve-, but I read in
-help twoway_legend- that 

"You may also specify quoted text after # to override the descriptive
text associated with a symbol. (...)  It is considered better style,
however, to use the label() suboption to relabel symbols."

So -label()- would have been a more proper way to proceed.  One lesson
is that, when both order() and label() are used at the same time, the
former takes precedence.

Thanks for pointing out the solution. 

Philippe





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