chart ytitle format

[Joan Marti]

Hi,

I have 3 charts that I want to stack on top of each other, and for each one I wanted to format the ytitle with a box around it (like the titles in the picture attached, but on the y axis instead). Is this possible at all?

Thank you very much!

[Nick Cox]

help textbox options 

sysuse auto, clear
scatter mpg weight, ytitle(check this out, box fcolor(red*0.1) lcolor(red)

[Joan Marti]

Great thank you! And is there any way to make the box bigger, so it covers the whole axis? (I checked help textbox but could not find any relevant ones)

[Nick Cox]

In my version of Stata (17) I see width() and height() options. Here an example such as

sysuse auto, clear
scatter mpg weight, ytitle(check this out, box fcolor(red*0.1) lcolor(red) width(100))

shows that you can stretch the box to the entire y axis. The height() option might also be useful.

[Joan Marti]

perfect, works great, thank you very much!