Add a gap/space between graph title and the plot region

[Yingyi Lin]

Hi Statalists,

Recently I have been using the graph module of Stata, and a seemly simple issue came up, such that I failed to figure out how to increase the space between a graph TITLE (neither xtitle nor ytitle) and plot region. I have searched the manuals and it seems like there is no such solution in the "title" suboptions . Am I missing anything? Any thought is welcome and appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
Yingyi

[ericmelse]

I suppose, Lin, you struggle with something like this:

sysuse auto
twoway scatter price weight, title(My title, color(blue) box fc(sand) lc(sand))

which results in:

Now you want to increase (control) the distance between your graph's title and the plot area. As far as I am aware there is no regular option to set that, but you will get what you want by introducing an empty subtitle, but note that a space character is required, and using the margin parameters to control the distance of the box of the subtitle, like:

twoway scatter price weight, title(My title, color(blue) box fc(sand) lc(sand)) subtitle(" ", margin(l+0 r+0 b-1 t-1)

Much more information about creating graphics with Stata is available in the help file and PDF documentation and for almost anything else you could buy the print or ebook version of A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics, Third Edition.

I hope this is helpful.

[Nicholas Winter]

You can just specify a (larger than default) bottom margin on the title itself:

twoway scatter price weight, title(My title, color(blue) box fc(sand) lc(sand) margin(b=5))

[Yingyi Lin]

Hi Eric and Nicholas, thanks for your reply and both of your solutions perfectly solve the issue.

Thanks again!
Yingyi