Avoid truncation of axis labels in bar graph

[Amalie Timmermann]

Hi Statalist,

I am trying to make a bar chart in Stata with some very long labels on the y-axis. However, some of my labels are truncated when displayed in the graph (se example). I am sure there is a way of keeping the entire label in the graph, and I am hoping that maybe one of you can tell me how to do it.
Thanks in advance.

I use the following code:

graph hbar AAbw, ///
over (MeanP501) bar(1, color(black)) bar(2, color(gs8)) ///
over(study, label(labsize(tiny))) ///
over(country, label(labsize(vsmall)) gap(400)) nofill ///
ytitle("Acrylamide (μg/kg bw/day)", size(vsmall)) ///
title("Median/mean estimated acrylamide intake" ///
"based on DQ or both DQ and DR" ///
" ", span size(small) color(black)) ///
ysize(10) ///
xsize(7) ///
ylabel(0(0.1)0.9, labsize(vsmall)) ///
legend(size(vsmall)) ///
graphregion(color(white))

[Andrew Musau]

There are length constraints. Either shorten very long labels or use the -relabel()- option, if you want the full label to appear.

sysuse auto, clear
label def rep78 1 "good" 3 "neither good nor bad, just average"
label values rep78 rep78
gr hbar mpg, over(rep78) scheme(s1mono)

gr hbar mpg, over(rep78, relabel(3 "neither good nor bad, just average")) scheme(s1mono)

[Amalie Timmermann]

Thank you for your quick reply. Do you know if there is any way to do this for all labels without having to type each label manually?
I have several graphs that each has many long labels, so I am hoping to avoid having to type each of them - especially since the order might change if I add new data to the graph.

[Andrew Musau]

There was a suggestion to modify the ado file of graph, but making changes to the codes of official Stata commands is something that I do not do or recommend.
https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...els-on-a-graph

[Amalie Timmermann]

Thank you. It looks like I have a lot of manual work to do then