ylabel containing apostrophes overlap with ytitle

[Barbara Fischer]

Hi

When I use an apostrophe in the ylabel the ytitlegap is not correctly specified.
I used the margin option to set the gap.
However, I wonder if there is an other way to define the ylabel to avoid this problem?

I'm using Stata 13.1

clear
sysuse auto

* problem
tw scatter price price, scheme(s2color) ///
ylabel(0 "0" 5000 "5'000" 10000 "10'000" 15000 "15'000", angle(horizontal))

* no problem
tw scatter price price, scheme( s2color) ///
ylabel(0 "0" 5000 "5.000" 10000 "10.000" 15000 "15.000", angle(horizontal))

* quick fix
tw scatter price price, scheme(s2color)  ///
ylabel(0 "0" 5000 "5'000" 10000 "10'000" 15000 "15'000",  angle(horizontal)) ///
ytitle(, margin(0 12 0 0))

[Nick Cox]

Consider the suboption

ysc(titlegap())

for changing the space between axis and title. In your example, 15 seems about right.

[Barbara Fischer]

Thanks, ysx(titlegap()) works fine.
Is used the following code to make it a bit more flexible:

qui su price

local titlegap `"`=length("`=max(abs(`r(max)'),abs(`r(min)'))'")*2.5'"'

tw scatter price price, scheme(s2color)  ///
ylabel(0 "0" 5000 "5'000" 10000 "10'000" 15000 "15'000",  angle(horizontal)) ///
ysc(titlegap(`titlegap'))

Neverthless, I would be nice if the graph command would recognize the string and use the correct titlegap.

[Nick Cox]

I'd change the units here (in this example, divide by 1000), but that's a matter of taste. (Presumably the example is proxy for your real example.)