twoway xsc(titleg) not work

[Wen-Hung Hsu]

Hi,
I would love to ask the syntax for the x axis in the adjustment of gap. I would love to keep the gap to be every 5 years. But the following syntax does not work. The gap still show in 20years.

twoway line mktinfo_share_y privateinfo_share_y publicinfo_share_y noise_share_y year, xsc(titleg(5))

Can anyone help me with this issue?

The data is below

* Example generated by -dataex-. For more info, type help dataex
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input float(year mktinfo_share_y privateinfo_share_y publicinfo_share_y noise_share_y)
1960  .13041024  .3733783 .29362082 .20259063
1961 .073339835  .4178522 .32064235  .1881656
1962  .14643538  .3301847 .19206716 .33131275
1963  .03197268  .4021853  .2638095  .3020326
1964  .02464576  .4347318  .3036787 .23694368
1965  .05063208  .4172321  .3255339 .20660193
1966   .1593086  .3458911 .26931205  .2254883
1967  .07748508  .3942994  .3503651 .17785043
1968   .1573365   .369221 .27044126 .20300128
1969  .20267823  .3100887 .27250445 .21472862
1970  .25610182 .26478475 .24079363  .2383198
1971   .1479524   .348977  .3133605  .1897101
1972   .0594992  .3961067  .3568313  .1875628
1973  .12018538  .3180535   .322795 .23896605
1974  .10394252  .3184373 .29521003 .28241017
1975   .1068501   .329824  .3284898 .23483604
1976  .06221274  .3953319 .33132565 .21112975
1977  .06021249  .3959777  .3023757  .2414341
1978  .16461247  .3482885  .2696097 .21748935
1979  .09401213  .3662696  .3224206 .21729766
1980  .14132091  .3566044 .30432045  .1977542
1981  .09041028   .355794  .3553352  .1984606
1982   .0918958 .28607875 .20093794  .4210875
1983  .04022127  .3568515  .4011464  .2017808
1984  .06578613  .3478476  .3695956  .2167707
1985  .03835262  .3397999  .3866186 .23522887
1986  .03599873   .316371  .3809255  .2667047
1987  .15373954 .25101054  .2674245  .3278254
1988  .02184406  .3140104  .3311886  .3329569
1989 .019295767   .332846  .3467034  .3011549
1990  .04027881  .2425528  .3500148  .3671535
1991  .04223945 .25066632  .3465352   .360559
1992 .017675482 .26294032  .3070931  .4122911
1993 .017355671  .2821767 .26720566   .433262
1994 .022968814 .29116616 .25678125  .4290838
1995 .016970845  .3106397   .277799  .3945904
1996  .03017703  .3299761  .2958179 .34402895
1997 .024186626  .3423854  .3279377  .3054903
1998  .07659408  .2917039 .33943075 .29227126
1999  .02982794  .3597882  .3402749 .27010894
2000  .10213038  .3011689  .3390727 .25762808
2001  .07980388  .2890282  .3811088 .25005913
2002  .05904123 .29172763  .3810438 .26818734
2003  .05759099  .3135848  .3761155 .25270876
2004  .07126597    .35753  .3630565  .2081475
2005  .03740621  .4019119  .3442029   .216479
2006  .04637509 .38173935  .3703479  .2015377
2007  .04924459  .3604372   .350387 .23993114
2008   .1022275  .2295993  .3655846 .30258855
2009  .15707934  .2447521  .3337749  .2643937
2010  .09471938  .3393101  .3316359  .2343346
2011  .10230943  .3092409  .3148359 .27361375
2012  .03348233  .3653982  .3663463  .2347731
2013 .027067374 .37494355  .3489747  .2490144
2014  .04696841   .342073  .3779756   .232983
2015  .03929329  .3479499  .3912172  .2215396
2016   .0622444  .3033819  .3918344 .24253935
2017 .016474597  .3483695  .3579965 .27715936
2018  .05560206  .3183716  .3905132  .2355132
2019 .031254992  .3472347 .39791405  .2235963
2020  .14727966 .27763695 .31814265 .25694075
2021  .04324708  .3186812  .3814489 .25662282
end

[Nick Cox]

titlegap() controls the spacing between the x axis and its accompanying axis title (in some other software called the axis label).

What you want concerns the axis labels, meaning in other terms the axis tick labels. xla(1960(5)2020) will get what you ask, although xla(1960(10)2020) xtic(1965(10)2015) is likely to seem less busy.