color macros for graphs

[Bert Kritzer]

I'm trying to setup macros to use across a set of graphs for cmyk colors.

I've tried
local mygray : "45 45 49 8"
local mygray : `"45 45 49 8"''

but for both Stata tells me
"45 45 49 8 not allowed

I had also tried these without the : but then when I used the macros in a bar graph [color(`mygray'), I don't get the color I want which I do get specifying color("45 45 49 8").

What am I missing?

[Nick Cox]

Try

color("`mygray'")

The double quotes in your definition of the local are delimiters and so not included in the definition. In several contexts the syntax requires you to specify the "" explicitly to show that some argument is a string value.

[Bert Kritzer]

That works! Thanks, Bert