Using SMCL in Stata Graphs

[John Mullahy]

Is there comprehensive documentation of which SMCL tags do and do not work as intended when producing Stata graphs? In

help graph text

one finds

text elements in Stata graphs support the use of certain SMCL markup directives, or tags, to affect how they appear on the screen

"certain" appears to be the key word here.

For instance, beyond what is documented in help graph text some trial and error suggests that

{dup #: text}

and

{space #}

have the desired effects, while many others do not.

Context: This question was prompted by my attempts to use SMCL to create a "beta-hat" symbol in axis labels and graph titles. I've thusfar failed in that attempt. If anyone has suggestions how to do that (whether or not SMCL is used) they would be appreciated.

[Martyn Sherriff]

In theory you should be able to do it Unicode with a Combining Diacritical Mark:

twoway scatter weight mpg, title(`=ustrunescape("\u03B2\u0302")')

How do I add a caret over a Greek letter in graph text? - Statalist , but in practice I have not found a suitable Windows font to achieve this; you may have different fonts that work

[John Mullahy]

Thanks Martyn.