Including bold font in custom Stata scheme

[Christian Henn]

Hi,

I am building my own custom Stata scheme based on s2color. I would like to define the title of the graph to appear in bold font, but cannot see anywhere to specify this.

Many thanks for any help,
Christian

[wbuchanan]

Christian Henn you might want to look at the help documentation from the brewscheme package. I'm not sure there is a direct way to accomplish what you want, but if there is you would be able to find it as one of the options you can set with the brewtheme command.

[Marcos Almeida]

Hello Christian,

Welcome to the Stata Forum.

I wonder whether you have tried to insert the word "bf" before the phrase you wish to be presented in bold font.

For example:

graph twoway (scatter var1 var2) , title({bf: This title shall be presented in bold})

Hopefully that helps.

[wbuchanan]

Marcos Almeida that will work interactively in commands, but I don't believe there is an option to insert this in a scheme file.

[Marcos Almeida]

wbuchanan : you are right. We may get it interactively, but not under a scheme file. Still, since you think there may not be a direct way to perfom this, even under user-written programs, an alternative could be just using both "scheme" and "bf" options.

Sort of:

.sysuse auto
.graph twoway (scatter price mpg) , scheme(sj) title({bf: This title shall be presented in bold})

[wbuchanan]

Marcos Almeida I agree completely. While I wouldn't be as likely to use bold type face in a graph personally, I can see your suggestion being the best possible compromise.

[Tim Morris]

You can't do anything with characters in a graph scheme. Lots of people want to choose the font themselves, but not many people write schemes, so you don't want a scheme overriding your font selection.

The way to do stuff with fonts is via graph set. Note that font ≠ typeface. Say you want Arial bold, then you can just do:

graph set [exporttype] fontface "Arial Bold"

For pdf graphs, it's a bit different (who knows why):

translator set Graph2pdf fontface "Arial Bold"

(though I haven't checked that the bold part works for pdf).

[Marcos Almeida]

Indeed, Tim, that is a very interesting solution, for - graph set - can provide bold fonts as well.

But I gather it would provide bold fonts for all characters in the graph, not only for the title, as demanded in #1.

In #5, I just tried to preserve the desired scheme along with providing a bold font only for the title.

[Tim Morris]

Ah yes, thanks Marcos Almeida – I mis-read and thought Christian had asked for bold for the whole graph. That did seem strange! Apologies.
Tim

[Xiaoguang Li]

You can't do anything with characters in a graph scheme. Lots of people want to choose the font themselves, but not many people write schemes, so you don't want a scheme overriding your font selection.

The way to do stuff with fonts is via graph set. Note that font ≠ typeface. Say you want Arial bold, then you can just do:

graph set [exporttype] fontface "Arial Bold"

For pdf graphs, it's a bit different (who knows why):

translator set Graph2pdf fontface "Arial Bold"

(though I haven't checked that the bold part works for pdf).

This is very helpful. Thanks.