Graph: display negative sign using en-dash instead of hyphen

[shem shen]

Hi list,

webuse auto,clear
replace rep78=-1*rep78 if foreign==1
scatter rep78 trunk,ysc(r(-5 5)) ylabel(-5(2)5) yla(, ang(h))

Someone told me that the negative sign on the y-axis is a hyphen and asked me to change it to en-dash (see below for how en-dash looks different from hyphen in Word), but I cannot figure out how to do it in Stata.

Thank you!

[Roman Mostazir]

If you know the range you are going to use for yscale, one way of doing it would be:

scatter rep78 trunk, ylab(-5 "–5" -3 "–3" -1 "–1" 1 3 5 , ang(h))

[shem shen]

If you know the range you are going to use for yscale, one way of doing it would be:

scatter rep78 trunk, ylab(-5 "–5" -3 "–3" -1 "–1" 1 3 5 , ang(h))

Thank you Roman! I really appreciate it. Your reply saved me a lot of time.