left aligning/adjusting y-labels

[Niels Henrik Bruun]

Hi

I would like to left align or left adjust string y-labels.

My best shot so far has been:

sysuse auto
label define rep78 1 "{lalign 20: 1 r}" 2 "{lalign 20: 2 repairs}" 3 "{lalign 20: 3 repairs}" 4 "{lalign 20: 4 repairs}" 5 "{lalign 20: 5 repairs}", replace
label values rep78 rep78
twoway (scatter rep78 price), ylabel(, valuelabel angle(0))

But the aligning isn't right:

Can someone help me?

[Niels Henrik Bruun]

Been working further with this.

Inspired by Michael Norman Mitchell I've tried using monospaced fonts:

sysuse auto
label define rep78 1 "{lalign 20: {fontface courier:1 r      }}" 2 "{lalign 20: {fontface courier:2 repairs}}" 3 "{lalign 20: {fontface courier:3 repairs}}" 4 "{lalign 20: {fontface courier:4 repairs}}" 5 "{lalign 20: {fontface courier:5 repairs}}", replace
label values rep78 rep78
twoway (scatter rep78 price), ylabel(, valuelabel angle(0))

Note that I have to add spaces to give all the label text the same length!!
This is very inconvenient.

One can get a list of possible monospaced fonts here

So not pretty, but a workaround

Btw the graph now looks like:

[Nick Cox]

This will I think indeed be difficult unless you use monospaced fonts, which look ugly to me in graphs.

Not what you're asking, but left-aligned labels come automatically with ysc(alt) -- but on the right-hand side.

[Niels Henrik Bruun]

Hi Nick
I usually agree regarding monospaced fonts.
But I found lucida console which is not that bad