Date:         Wed, 18 May 2005 00:13:24 -0700
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From:         chrysrobyn <chrysrobyn@GMAIL.COM>
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Subject:      proc greplay question
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Is there a clean way to line up stacked charts?

I would like to stack a pair of line charts (built with proc gplot) and
a pair of bar charts (build with proc gchart and vbar).  After hunting
through the archives I decided the best method was to build all the
appropriate charts and then proc greplay them together.  This is almost
what I wanted.  I can individually use offset and origin to move the
individual plots around the field, but when I proc greplay them, they
lose origin axis customizations (offset appears to stay).

My problem boils down to alignment.  In the x direction, my bar chart's
center point on the first bar is half the width in from the left; the
line plot is similarly defined, but the bar and line symbol are
differently sized.    Additionally, there appears to be some hard to
explain empty space between the Y label and the left side in bar
charts, whereas there is little such space in line charts.

Is there a nice way to accomplish my alignment goals?  Ideally I would
be able to leave all the stacked graphs' axes present so they can be
individually viewed.  A complication is the number of x axis variables
is itself variable, so I am wary of hard-coding a value because the bar
chart's bars change in width.