I made some tiny changes to my stata figure schemes:
- areas of confidence intervals are solid and gray (distinguishable from background)
- xylines are by default shortdash in all schemes
- xylines are reddish in plotplainblind & plottigblind
- xylines are plr1 (red) in plottig
- minor ticks in the x- and y-axes were added in plottig & plottigblind
The newest version of the schemes can now be downloaded within Stata. In Stata type:
ssc install blindschemes, replace all
set scheme plottig, permanently
A plot with plottig looks now like this…
And this figure shows you the rise of mobilization for postmaterialist protests (1980-1995, 19 Advanced Demos in Europe, EPCD data recoded into CAP codes).
Previous changes (version 1.1):
- all legends moved to the right hand side of the plotarea
- xylines in plotplain are no longer vvthin, but kept thin
- size of markers in legends was increased
- distance between markers in legends and text was decreased
- the linepattern of the 3rd line is no longer longdash but shortdash (in plotplain; plotplainblind; plottigblind)
- distance between the title of the y-axis and the y-axis was increased
- plottigblind no longer uses gray color for lines, markers
- plotplain & plotplainblind use darker and thicker gridlines
The following paper introduces the schemes and gives a brief “how to” on producing on schemes in Stata: [PDF].
Notice: Code comes free, but programmers put a lot of work into it. Thus, please cite programmers’ papers/publications introducing code.
