Added text in twoway graphs (bug?)

[Daniel Kraehmer]

Dear Statalist community,

I've encountered some strange behavior with added text in twoway graphs.

To my understanding, added text should be subject to the same formatting options as captions, headings, etc. However, this does not seem to be the case:

sysuse auto, clear

* captions
scatter price weight, /// Basic
    caption("My caption", ring(0) position(7) box) name(g1, replace)
scatter price weight, /// + bmargin
    caption("My caption", ring(0) position(7) box bmargin("2 0 2 0")) name(g2, replace)
scatter price weight, /// + lcolor
    caption("My caption", ring(0) position(7) box bmargin("2 0 2 0") lcolor(none)) name(g3, replace)

* textboxes
scatter price weight, /// Basic
    text(0 2000 "My Text", box) name(g4, replace)
scatter price weight, /// + bmargin
    text(0 2000 "My Text", box bmargin("2 0 2 0")) name(g5, replace)
scatter price weight, /// + lcolor
    text(0 2000 "My Text", box bmargin("2 0 2 0") lcolor(none)) name(g6, replace)
scatter price weight, /// + fcolor + bcolor
    text(0 2000 "My Text", box bmargin("2 0 2 0") lcolor(none) fcolor(gray) bcolor(gray)) name(g7, replace)

For captions, all options work just fine. For textboxes, however, the bmargin option doesn't do anything (interestingly, margin(...) does take effect). Removing the outline color of the textbox also removes its fill color (g5 vs. g6), and it seems impossible to get the fill color back (g7).

Am I missing something? Is added text a different beast altogether? Or is this a bug? From the documentation, I would assume captions and textboxes to work the same when it comes to these options.

I am using Stata 17 on Windows 11.