Other people have addressed the issues here directly
or indirectly. The Tip as published does carry
general warnings about fonts installed and platform
dependence. If re-visited, the specifics here could
usefully be flagged: "This works in MS Windows; your
set-up may differ."
Nick
[email protected]
Kit Baum
> Nick's advice from Stata Tip 6
>
> Let us see how this works by considering the problem of inserting
> awkward characters in your Stata graphs, say as part of some plot or
> axis title. Some examples of possibly useful characters are
>
> char(133) ellipsis
> char(134) dagger
> char(135) double dagger
> char(169) copyright
> char(176) degree symbol
> char(177) plus or minus
> char(178) superscript 2
> char(179) superscript 3
> char(181) micro symbol
> char(188) one-fourth
> char(189) one-half
> char(190) three-fourths
> char(215) multiply
> ...
>
> is Windows-specific. These are not the correct mappings for
> Mac OS X.
> Furthermore one cannot change the default font used for a
> given Stata
> window type in Mac OS X. Stata Tip 6 failed to mention that the
> proposed approach is platform-specific.
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