Aligning subscripts and superscripts in graphs' text elements

[John Mullahy]

Does anyone know if it's possible to horizontally align subscripts and superscripts using text elements in Stata graphs?

help graph_text

Specifying

...ti("y{sub:j,k}{sup:2}")...

results in (understandably) the "2" superscript appearing to the northeast of the "j,k" subscript. My goal would be to have "2" appear above the "j".

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[Andrew Musau]

John, as far as I know, I don't think you can have a double subscript or anything like that. However, because line-breaks are allowed in titles, you can use a combination of subscripts, superscripts and spacing to "trick" Stata to do what you want. You can also experiment with different fonts. For your example above:

sysuse auto
scatter mpg weight, ti(  "y  {sub:2}""{sup:j,k}") scheme(s1color)
scatter mpg weight, ti(  "y  {sub:{stMono:{bf:2}}}""{sup:j,k}") scheme(s1color)

Result:

[John Mullahy]

Thanks Andrew.

I'm not fluent in SMCL language and had been hoping that something like

{space #}

might work with negative #s, but that evidently takes only nonnegative integer #s.

Your trick looks promising; I'll give it a try.