title: Changing the Look of Dotted Line in Stata
body: <p>I'm trying to create a twoway line graph in Stata that, because it will likely be photocopied and/or printed in black &amp; white, we need to use dashed and dotted lines to differentiate between lines. The problem is that Stata's dotted line looks awful, it's not a dot at all, but a vertical line. I can't figure out any way to change the default symbol for a dotted line from a pipe to an actual dot, and have spent a couple hours already using every combination of search terms I can think of to figure it out. Stata's help files have been no help either. The code I'm using is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>twoway (line asm_total_perc year, lcolor(navy) lwidth(thick)  lpattern(dash)) ///
      (line sen_total_perc year, lcolor(dkorange) lwidth(vthick) lpattern(dot)  ///
      ylab(0(5)20) ///
      xlab(1975(10)2015, notick) ///
      ytitle("Percentage") ///
      xtitle("Year") ///
      legend(on order( ///
          1 "Group A"  ///
          2 "Group B" )  ///
          rows(1) cols(3))  ///
      )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It produces the following:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QUvRK.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QUvRK.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to make the dots actual circles? Except for changing the color, the code I'm using is taken from an old project that created the figures like this:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PdG7p.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PdG7p.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>I assume, there's some additional setting, or a Stata plugin that I'm missing. Please help!</p>