Vertically aligning the text and box in

[Itzhak Rasooly]

I am trying to make a two-way histogram. Unfortunately, the text and the 'box' in the legend are not exactly aligned. To see the issue, consider the example:

sysuse auto.dta
twoway (histogram mpg, discrete bfcolor(white) bcolor(black*.60)) ///        
       (histogram rep78, discrete color(green%20)), ///  
       legend(order(2 "MPG Variable" 1 "REP78 Variable")) xsc(titlegap(*5)) plotregion(margin(zero))

This produces the following histogram:



As can be seen, "MPG Variable" is not aligned with the green box: it is a bit too low. An analogous comment applies to "REP78 Variable". Is there an easy way to fix this? Note: my default font is Latin Modern, although I don't think that this causes the issue.

Many thanks in advance.

Edit: the title should be: "Vertically aligning the text and box in vertical histograms", sadly I don't seem to be able to edit this...