topic text justification with in-line formatting in PDF in ODS and Base Reporting

text justification with in-line formatting in PDF

cov_derek — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:20:21 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm having a problem involving a spanning header. I want to produce a spanning header with "text1 text2" on the left side of the page, and then "text3" at the right side of the page.

Here's my COLUMNS statement:

COLUMNS ("~{style [fontstyle=italic just=l] text1} text2 ~{style [just=r] text 3}" c1 c2 c3 c4 c5);

It is left-justified, with text1 in italics and text2 in regular, but text3 follows immediately after As far as I can tell, the second JUST doesn't work. The in-line directive works (replace JUST=R with COLOR=RED and text3 turns red), but not with JUST. Is this a spanning header issue where the width of the table can't be determined in time to apply formatting?

Thanks,

Derek

Re: text justification with in-line formatting in PDF

Cynthia_sas — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:22:32 GMT

Hi:

I think there are some attributes that PDF won't change in "midstream" or "mid-cell". You'd have to check with Tech Support to verify that. However, you could just split up the header so that text1 and text2 are above the first 3 columns and then text 3 is above the last 2 columns and if you split the spanning header into 2 cells, each cell can have different justification. See the attached screen shot. Program below.

If that won't work with you, then I recommend that you work with Tech Support.

cynthia

ods pdf file='c:\temp\just.pdf' style=printer notoc;

ods escapechar='~';

proc report data=sashelp.class nowd;

COLUMNS ("~{style [fontstyle=italic just=l] text1 text2}" name age sex )

("~{style [just=r] text 3}" height weight);

run;

ods pdf close;

Re: text justification with in-line formatting in PDF

cov_derek — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:37:36 GMT

Thank you, Cynthia. Hope y'all are safe and warm.