Dear all,
What bothered me in Stata: you change the size of a figure or combine figures -> the font size is rescaled in a strange way.
With RESIZE you can make figures smaller or bigger and keep the absolute font size unchanged.
RESIZE is based on GRAPH DISPLAY.
In addition, there are:
RESIZECOMBINE based on GRAPH COMBINE, and
RESIZEC1LEG based on GRC1LEG.
If you change the size of a figure using graph display or similar commands, Stata automatically rescales the font size in proportion to the minimum out of the figure's height and width. However, this is not desired in many situations.
When we increase the size of a figure, we often do so to fit more content into the figure. Stata's default rescaling counters that. The new commands keep the absolute font size constant -> we can increase (decrease) the figure's size to show more (less) information.
Books, articles etc. usually have coherent font sizes. But that’s often not the case for figures. Even in the top Soc Sci journals, there are figures with very different font sizes, even in the same article
-> some figures are difficult to decipher, other have too large font.
In Science, Nature etc., font sizes are coherent within and between articles, which improves the reading experience. My new ado makes it easier to control font sizes & make them coherent.
The ado is really small and simple, but I’m sure there are a couple of bugs in it anyways. If you find some, please let me know; feedback is appreciated!
the package is on SSC:
ssc install resize
What bothered me in Stata: you change the size of a figure or combine figures -> the font size is rescaled in a strange way.
With RESIZE you can make figures smaller or bigger and keep the absolute font size unchanged.
RESIZE is based on GRAPH DISPLAY.
In addition, there are:
RESIZECOMBINE based on GRAPH COMBINE, and
RESIZEC1LEG based on GRC1LEG.
If you change the size of a figure using graph display or similar commands, Stata automatically rescales the font size in proportion to the minimum out of the figure's height and width. However, this is not desired in many situations.
When we increase the size of a figure, we often do so to fit more content into the figure. Stata's default rescaling counters that. The new commands keep the absolute font size constant -> we can increase (decrease) the figure's size to show more (less) information.
Books, articles etc. usually have coherent font sizes. But that’s often not the case for figures. Even in the top Soc Sci journals, there are figures with very different font sizes, even in the same article
-> some figures are difficult to decipher, other have too large font.
In Science, Nature etc., font sizes are coherent within and between articles, which improves the reading experience. My new ado makes it easier to control font sizes & make them coherent.
The ado is really small and simple, but I’m sure there are a couple of bugs in it anyways. If you find some, please let me know; feedback is appreciated!
the package is on SSC:
ssc install resize
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