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

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

I'd say that "compact" would be a better description of that output, not 
pretty.  If you want pretty that also happens to use the actual font for 
your graph, I'd suggest running this do file and maybe printing the graph 
for reference:

set obs 223
gen asciin=_n+32
gen ascii=char(asciin)
gen x=int(asciin/10)
gen y=asciin-10*int(asciin/10)
tw scatter  y x  , mlab(ascii) mlabpos(0)  mlabsize(large) ///
msymbol(i) yscale(range(-.5 9.5)) ylab(0(1)9,g angle(hor)) ///
xlab(3(1)25,grid) xti("First Digit(s) of ASCII Code") ///
yti("Last Digit") xsize(6) ysize(4) plotregion(margin(medium))
graph save asciiplot

This will give you a graph that shows each character in the current graph 
font and lets you easily see its code based on the x and y axis values. 
Note: make sure that the graph command hasn't wrapped strangely in your 
email -- it should be four lines long with the first three lines each ending 
in ///.

Michael Blasnik


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adrian Mander" <Adrian.Mander@mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>; <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:39 AM
Subject: Re: st: Re: Tip - Special characters in labels, titles of graphs &c



> A plug for some code I wrote that produces pretty output instead of the 
> suggestion below
>
> ssc install ascii
>
> then just type
>
> ascii
>
> to see all the interesting characters available.
>
> cheers
> Ade
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