st: RE: Line break in a character string for a bar chart label

["Radwin, David" <dradwin@rti.org>]

Walt,

Like this?

. sysuse auto

. label define origin 0 ///
	`" "A really long label that has to" "split over onto the next
line" "', modify

. graph hbar price, over(foreign)

David
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David Radwin
Senior Research Associate
Education Studies Division
RTI International
2150 Shattuck Ave., Suite 800
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: 510-665-8274

www.rti.org


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> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 1:36 PM
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> Subject: st: Line break in a character string for a bar chart label
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I created a horizontal bar chart of magazine readership.  The labels
for
> each bar are combinations of the magazines. Unfortunately, some labels
> are too long (too many magazines for a bar) and are cut-off or they
just
> don't look nice.  I'd like to insert a line break in the character
> strings so that the labels would appear on two (or more) lines.   Some
> programming languages, such as R, use "\n" to break a line.  Does
Stata
> (13 for Windows) have something like this?  Or is there a way to tell
> Stata to wrap a line?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Walt
> 
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