Re: st: Apostrophe in labels breaks graph

[Scott Merryman <scott.merryman@gmail.com>]

Using a single closing quotation mark seems to work:

clear all
sysuse auto

lab def origin 0 "Europe de l`=char(146)'Ouest" ///
 1 "Asie de l`=char(146)'Est", modify

graph hbar mpg trunk turn, over(foreign) ///
 legend(row(1) span) stack name(two,replace)


Scott

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Friedrich Huebler <fhuebler@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am working on a graph that has French labels with apostrophes. These
> apostrophes break the graph, as the code below demonstrates. The graph
> in the example is meaningless, I only use the auto data to visualize
> the problem.
>
> clear all
> sysuse auto
> graph hbar mpg trunk turn, over(foreign) ///
>  legend(row(1) span) stack name(one)
> lab def origin 0 "Europe de l'Ouest" ///
>  1 "Asie de l'Est", modify
> graph hbar mpg trunk turn, over(foreign) ///
>  legend(row(1) span) stack name(two)
> graph hbar mpg trunk turn, over(foreign) ///
>  legend(row(1) span) stack name(three) ///
>  graphregion(margin(30 3 3 3))
> graph hbar mpg trunk turn, over(foreign, ///
>  relabel(1 `""Europe de" "l'Ouest""' ///
>  2 `""Asie de" "l'Est""')) ///
>  legend(row(1) span) stack name(four)
>
> Graph one shows the layout that I need. In graph two the labels are
> mostly invisible.
>
> Graph three shows the labels, but only by adding extra margin on the
> left side. The problem with this solution is that -legend(span)- no
> longer has the desired effect because the legend stays below the
> horizontal axis in the graph.
>
> Graph four shows the labels, as well as the spanned legend, but I
> didn't manage to create this graph with the region names in a single
> line, as in graph three.
>
> Is it possible to show the labels with the apostrophes in a single
> line, with a legend that spans the entire width of the graph? I found
> no solution in the documentation or the Statalist archive. I also
> tried editing individual labels in the Graph Editor but the labels
> disappear as soon as I enter a label with an apostrophe.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Friedrich

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