Scott,
Thanks for the explanation. I should have thought of setting trace on to
figure it out. I was puzzled by the "5" and couldn't see why/how the two
sets of double quotes worked. Your recursive use of `mytext' is quite also
interesting in this solution, especially since it starts out empty -which
also initially confused me.
Thanks for the macro lesson.
Buzz
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Merryman
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: adding info to bar graph
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> "5" looks like a typo: delete it.
No, in this case I am using the -text()- option; the "5" specifies the
location on y-axis for the text boxes.
As Nick pointed out the the line appends stuff to the local macro as
it loops through the levels of rep78.
If you -set trace on- you can see work it through adding text to the
local macro:
- foreach l of local levels {
...
- local mytext "`mytext' 5 `l' "`n'/`d'" "
= local mytext " 5 1 "0/2" "
- }
...
- local mytext "`mytext' 5 `l' "`n'/`d'" "
= local mytext " 5 1 "0/2" 5 2 "0/8" "
- }
...
- local mytext "`mytext' 5 `l' "`n'/`d'" "
= local mytext " 5 1 "0/2" 5 2 "0/8" 5 3 "3/30" "
...
...
Scott
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