Twoway Default Settings

[Johann Ohler]

Hi All,

I am looking for help regarding twoway. It appears, that basically overnight the default options for rendering graphs changed for me, regardless of the command (see code) being exactly the same. In particular the size, alignment and placement of axis titles, as well as the size, text gap, and alignment of axis labels changed. I am aware I can change these settings in the specific twoway command, but I hope there is a more general solution, that does not involve adding more lines to my do file. I attached the old, and the current output below.

Thank you for the advice in advance.

Code:

twoway (rcap ci_lower ci_upper relative_time , color("`blue'")  msize(vsmall) lwidth(medthick) lpattern(solid)) ///
       (scatter beta relative_time           , color("`blue'") msize(medsmall)), /// 
       xscale(range(-5.2 5.2)) xlabel(, nogrid angle(0) labsize(small)) ///
       yscale(range(-1.5 0.5)) ylabel(-1.5(0.25)0.5, angle(0) labsize(small)) ///
       xtitle("Event Time (time since recieving above median cottages)", size(small) margin(small)) ///
       ytitle("Coefficient Estimate, 95% CI", size(small) margin(zero)) ///
       legend(off) yline(0, lp(dash) lc(gs6) lw(thin)) ///
       aspect(1) ysize(10) xsize(10)

[Andrew Musau]

There are no issues with twoway, as far as I know (I'm running StataNow 18.5 on Windows). See if you have an issue with the default font in your system (see #13 https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...hs-in-stata-17).

[Nick Cox]

One simple thing to check is what scheme you are (were) using. These are my results in Stata 18; yours may well differ.

. query graphics
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Graphics settings
      set graphics         on
      set autotabgraphs    on
      set scheme           stcolor
      set printcolor       asis       may be automatic, asis, gs1, gs2, gs3
      set copycolor        asis       may be automatic, asis, gs1, gs2, gs3

[Johann Ohler]

Thank you for the quick replies. It turns out it was the same bug regarding default font on Mac as pointed out by Andrew.