Re: AW: st: RE: Help with superscript in graphs

[Nick Winter <nwinter@virginia.edu>]

Not to beat a dead horse, but it looks to me like there is an actual bug 
somewhere in the text formatting routines.  Note the placement of the 
subscript:

gr twoway function y=0 , ///
  text(.75 .5 "Default{superscript:superscript}Default") ///
  text(.25 .5 "Default{subscript:subscript}Default")

alignment(bottom) and alignment(baseline) both fix the subscript's 
placement (sort of), but that seems like it shouldn't be necessary to 
get subscripts close to the baseline of the regular text ...

This problem does not crop up for [(xy)]titles, just for text().


-Nick Winter


Nick Winter wrote:
> Yes, I looked at -help alignmentstyle-.
>
> This example, which places a "default" and "bottom" aligned boxes right 
> up against each other, demonstrates that changing the alignment moves 
> the text slightly (as -help alignmentstyle- suggests), and also moves 
> the superscript relative to the text (which it doesn't).
>
> gr twoway function y=0 , ///
>   text(.75 .5 "Default{superscript:vs}(Bottomy)", ///
>     box placement(west))     ///
>   text(.75 .5  "(Default){superscript:vs}Bottomy", ///
>     box alignment(bottom) placement(east))     ///
>   text(.25 .5 "Top{superscript:vs}(Baseliney)", ///
>     box placement(west) alignment(top) )     ///
>   text(.25 .5  "(Top){superscript:vs}Baseliney", ///
>     box alignment(baseline) placement(east))
>
> So the movement of the superscript relative to the non-superscripted 
> text still doesn't make sense to me.
>
> -Nick
>
>
> Martin Weiss wrote:
> > <>
> > Only StataCorp can answer the question posed by Nick Winter 
> > conclusively, but as -help alignmentstyle- explains the alignments 
> > with a reference to a capital "H", the following picture makes sense:
> >
> >
> > *************
> > sysuse auto, clear
> > regress mpg price
> > local r2 : di %04.3f e(r2)
> > graph twoway (scatter mpg price) (lfit mpg price) /* */ , legend(off)  
> > /* */ text(35  13000 "Hr{superscript:2} =  `r2'", box) /* */ 
> > name(mygr3, replace) nodraw note("default alignment")
> >
> > graph twoway (scatter mpg price) (lfit mpg price) /* */ , legend(off)  
> > /* */ text(35  13000 "Hr{superscript:2} =  `r2'", box  /* */ 
> > alignment(bottom)) /* */ name(mygr4, replace) nodraw note("bottom 
> > alignment")
> >
> > graph twoway (scatter mpg price) (lfit mpg price) /* */ , legend(off)  
> > /* */ text(35  13000 "Hr{superscript:2} =  `r2'", box  /* */ 
> > alignment(top)) /* */ name(mygr5, replace) nodraw note("top alignment")
> >
> > graph twoway (scatter mpg price) (lfit mpg price) /* */ , legend(off)  
> > /* */ text(35  13000 "Hr{superscript:2} =  `r2'", box  /* */ 
> > alignment(baseline) ) /* */ name(mygr6, replace) nodraw note("baseline 
> > alignment")
> >
> > graph combine mygr3 mygr4 mygr5 mygr6, rows(2)
> > *************
> >
> >
> > The "r" character is probably special in that it does not have a 
> > "lower part".
> >
> >
> > HTH
> > Martin
> >
> >
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu 
> > [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Nick Cox
> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 17:44
> > An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Betreff: RE: st: RE: Help with superscript in graphs
> >
> > Good question. You expect me to know all the answers?
> > Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
> > Nick Winter
> >
> > *why* does that work?  That is, why is the superscripted text moved 
> > down more than the non-superscripted?
> >
> > Nick Cox wrote:
> >
> > > Try this. In passing, I show a more direct way to control format.
> > > sysuse auto, clear
> > > regress mpg price
> > > local r2 : di %04.3f e(r2)
> > > graph twoway  (scatter mpg price) (lfit mpg price) , legend(off) 
> > > text(35  13000 "r{superscript:2} =  `r2'", alignment(bottom))
> > >
> > > Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
> > > I want to include the r-square value in a graph inside the plot area:
> > >
> > > When I specify the option:
> > >
> > > text(25  12 "r{superscript:2} =  0`r2'"
> > >
> > > I get the desired result except that the superscript is too far above 
> > > the “r”. How do I get the superscript to be closer to the “r”
> > >
> > > Here is an example using the auto data.
> > >
> > > sysuse auto, clear
> > > regress mpg price
> > > local r2= round(e(r2),.0001)
> > > graph twoway  (scatter mpg price) (lfit mpg price) , legend(off) 
> > > text(35  13000 "r{superscript:2} =  0`r2'")
> >
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