Note alignment in twoway graphs

[Filippo Santi]

Dear statalisters,

I would like to align some notes below a twoway graph. So far I have only been able to obtain left-aligned notes (see the attached graph). Notes as they are could be fine, but at the same time they are not very nice-looking. I was wondering whether there is a way to align them at the center, or whether I have to surrender to removing notes from the graph and add them in my latex file.

I use STATA 14.0. The command is

    #delimit ;

    twoway (kdensity asymm if asymm_FT !=., lcolor(navy) lwidth(medthick)) || 
    (kdensity asymm_FT, lcolor(emerald) lwidth(medthick) lpattern(dash_dot)), 
    ytitle("Density") 
    ytitle(, size(small) margin(medsmall)) 
    ylabel(, labsize(small) glwidth(vthin) glcolor(gs15))
    xtitle("Asymmetry in ECP") 
    legend(order(1 "Full sample (lmt)" 2 "F&T 2010 sample") size(small)) 
    graphregion(fcolor(white) lcolor(white))
    note("lmt = Only Felbermayr and Toubal 2010s sample is plotted." "Asymmetry is computed on the full sample available");

Thanks a lot for any help,

Filippo

[Nick Cox]

How much of the total probability is lost because smoothed beyond zero? Better to smooth on log scale and back-transform? See tkdensity (SSC)

Documented that note() allows pos() and ring() suboptions:

tinfo is

"string" ["string" [...]] [, suboptions]

string may contain Unicode characters and SMCL tags to render mathematical symbols, italics, etc.; see
[G-4] text.

suboptions Description
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
prefix and suffix add to title text
position(clockposstyle) position of title -- side
ring(ringposstyle) position of title -- distance
span "centering" of title
textbox_options rendition of title

sysuse auto, clear
scatter mpg weight, note(This note is centered, pos(6)) caption(British people say centred, pos(6))

[Filippo Santi]

Dear Nick Cox,

Thank you very much for both the tkdensity recommendation and the note's suboptions...I completely missed them so far!

Best,

Filippo