Re: st: RE: Moving legends in combined graphs

[Nick Winter <nwinter@virginia.edu>]

Ah, a very cool approach.

Even better, I can copy the graph that contains the desired legend to a 
new graph, then turn off everything BUT the legend on that graph, and 
combine the graphs.

Cheers,
Nick

On 3/17/2010 3:14 PM, Fiedler, James (JSC-SK)[USRA] wrote:
> Is this the kind of thing you want?
>
> The following should put the legend in the 2,1 and 1,3 positions (the second-to-last command shuts off the plot region of graph b).
>
> gr two scatter mpg mpg price, name(a, replace) legend(off)
> gr two scatter mpg mpg price, name(b, replace) yscale(off) xscale(off) leg(, ring(0) pos(0))
> gr_edit .plotregion1.draw_view.setstyle, style(no)
> graph combine a b a a a b, rows(2)
>
> James
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 1:51 PM
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> Subject: st: Moving legends in combined graphs
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to automate a modification to -grc1leg-, to move the single
> legend into a "hole" in the combined plot.  There are two ways I can get
> what I want:
>
>
> sysuse auto, clear
> gr two scatter mpg mpg price, name(a, replace) legend(col(1))
>
> * Way One
> grc1leg a a a , ring(0) pos(4) name(drag)
> gr_edit .legend.DragBy 21 -15
>
> * Way Two
> grc1leg a a a , ring(0) pos(4) name(setmargin)
> gr_edit .legend.style.editstyle boxmargin(0 15 20 0) editcopy
>
>
> So my question is whether anyone can give me advice on automating
> figuring out the amount to drag (method 1) or the size of margins needed
> (method 2) to put the legend in the middle of an arbitrarily specified
> hole in the grid of plots?
>
> Ideally I'd like to be able to do something like:
>
>     grc1leg a a a a a, hole(5) putlegend(5)
>
> Which I can achieve by trial and error with
>
>     grc1leg a a a a a, hole(5) ring(0)
>     gr_edit .legend.DragBy 21 0
>
>
> which moves the legend to the middle of the hole created by the hole()
> option.  But to do that I need to figure out the size of the legend, and
> the size of the hole, I'd guess.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
>
> Nick Winter
>
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