st: Re: Tip - Special characters in labels, titles of graphs &c

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

You can refer to them using the char() function.  In Arial, I believe that 
mu is char(181) and superscript 2 is char(178).  For convenience, especially 
if you want to use these characters repeatedly, you may want to load them 
into local macros prior to the graph command:

local mu=char(181)
local squared=char(178)

graph tw scatter weight mpg , title("here is mu: `mu', here is mpg squared: 
mpg`squared' ")

When you used MS Word to access these characters, you may have noticed that 
the dialog box shows you the way to directly enter each special character 
using a alt-###.  Those numbers are the same as the numbers you should feed 
Stata's char() function.

M Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Seed" <paul.seed@kcl.ac.uk>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 6:35 AM
Subject: st: Tip - Special characters in labels, titles of graphs &c



> It has been a bugbear of mine for some time that it seems
> impossible to get special characters where I want them within Stata.
> In particular the "mu" in "micromol/L", and the "superscript 2" in
> "BMI (kg/m2)".  I can remember some discussion previously on Statalist,
> but no solution that I could track down.  Maybe I've missed something
>
> One approach, that I have just discovered, is to use
> the Symbol command from the Insert menu within Word.
> Then choose font arial and subset "basic Greek" to find "mu"; copy and 
> paste
> it into your Stata command as desired.
> "superscript 2" is given similarly in the subset Latin-1.
> As these symbols are likely to cause problems on some e-mail servers, I
> have not inserted them here.
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