This is not really new, but still comes in handy when formatting text in Stata figures. With a relatively simple code, you can make write text bold, in italics, and even greek letters.
This special text is entered in curly brackets “{…}”:
- Greek letters: {&alpha}, {&beta}, etc.
- Text in italics: {it:Text in italics}
- Text in bold: {bf: Text in bold}
- Operators: {&le} (less than or equal to), {&ne} (unequal)
- Subscripts and superscripts: e.g., write y{sup:2}{sup:ij}