This is my first post, so please forgive/correct any protocol lapses.

I would like to thank the author of twoway parea, Sergiy Radyakin, for his brilliant work toward making Stata more useful for publication. Notwithstanding Edward Tufte's advice to avoid patterns, those of us who are not journal editors cannot exactly dictate journal policy regarding figures, and must at times resort to patterns when preparing manuscripts.

Unfortunately, in v15.1 using Windows I can't seem to get twoway parea to work. I tried uninstalling/re-installing, and tried moving the accompanying style file around to see if I might luck out. I even tried it on my work machine, which is also running v15.1 in Windows.

I used the commands suggested in the help file:

sysuse auto
twoway parea l w, sort pattern(pattern6)

I tried varying the pattern, to no avail, and tried different schemes. I didn't find any other entries on this forum that had solved this for v15.x (though I did see another user who failed to get it to work on this version, but it seems it wasn't resolved).

Does anyone have any other ideas?

I would very much appreciate any insight the group might be able to provide.