Long legend text from labels

[Helene Honore]

Humbly trying out this forum for the first time, hoping to learn from you smart, helpfull people

My problem is that half the text from my labels disappear:

I use the graph bar command to generate stacked bars to show the distribution of categorized data (11 categories - variabel "akt_kat") from 21 individual people (variabel "person")

.graph bar, over(akt_kat) over(person, label(angle(90))) asyvars percentage stack ///
.legend(region(lstyle(none))title("Kategori", size (*1.0)) ) ///
.ytitle("Procent") ///
.b1title("Person") ///
.xsize(5.5) ysize (5) scale(0.5) name(g1,replace)

Only half the label text is shown in the legend.
The label text contain up to 65 letters.

I tried setting textwidth to (*8) and (70), but there was no change in the visual output

I tried finding the answer myself, but officially give up now.
Thank you in advance,
Helene

[Scott Merryman]

The most direct way would be to use the relabel() suboption with the over() option. See also: https://www.stata.com/statalist/arch.../msg00082.html

sysuse nlsw88, clear
label define racelbl 1 "This is a very very very long value label" 2 "black" 3 "other", replace
graph bar,  over(race, relabel(1 `""This is a very very" "very long value label""'))   /// 
    over(smsa) stack  asyvars percentage

[Helene Honore]

Thank you for your good answer, Scott.

I came upon this option, but hoped there would be a more elegant way for stata to use the full label text since I found it illogical that I should type it manually twice.
Since your answer confirms to me that there probably isn't, I'll use your solution, thank you.

I hope I am within forum etiquette by asking a bit of an unrelated follow-up question; Would you happen to know, if there is a way to add legends only once to a combined graph with same legends? (Learning, learning)

If a repost as a separate question is appropriate, I shall

Helene

[Scott Merryman]

Actually, there is a program by Nick Winter -splitvallabels- (ssc inst splitvallabels) which creates the relabel() option automatically:

sysuse nlsw88, clear
label define racelbl 1 "This is a very very very long value label" 2 "black" 3 "other", replace
splitvallabels race , length(25)
graph bar,  over(race, relabel(`r(relabel)'))   /// 
    over(smsa) stack  asyvars percentage

Yes, unrelated questions should in a new thread. That said

. search common legend

returns:

 grc1leg from http://www.stata.com/users/vwiggins
    grc1leg.  Combine graphs into one graph with a common legend. / Program by
    Vince Wiggins, StataCorp <[email protected]>. / Statalist distribution,
    16 June 2003. / Exactly like -graph combine- but shows a single common
    legend for all / combined graphs. / Distribution-Date: 02jun2010

grc1leg2 from http://digital.cgdev.org/doc/stata/MO/Misc
    {cmd:grc1leg2}. Add a common legend to combined graphs. / {cmd:grc1leg2},
    like {help graph combine}, arrays separately drawn / graphs as panels in a
    single combined graph.  However, / {cmd:grc1leg2} suppresses the legends
    in the individual graphs / and adds a common legend taken from one of