topic Re: Writing mathematical formulas as text in a ODS RTF document in ODS and Base Reporting

Writing mathematical formulas as text in a ODS RTF document

chjones — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:40:02 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I am in the process of report automation,specifically I'm writing an appendix to a journal article using Base SAS 9.4. I have written the code to automate the journal text, tables,page numbering, etc. I now need to write the appendix, which include the formulas used to calculate various items throughout the journal.

Is there a way for me to write mathematical expressions to be output into an ods rtf file. I've inserted subscripts using ~unicode(...), but is there something I can do to output something along the lines of the attached file. Also, the attached formula is one that I will ultimately need, I really will be needing to do summations, square roots, squared number, etc.

Any info is greatly appreciated. Thank You!

Re: Writing mathematical formulas as text in a ODS RTF document

ballardw — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:46:21 GMT

You can use Escapechar and the RAW function to insert native RTF codes. I haven't done this with the math functions so I can't provide an example.

You may be able to build a version in Word (or other word processor) and then save the file as RTF and then search the text with a text editor to find what you need to insert. If you go this route you may want to find a copy of the RTF specification to find which parts are actually the math symbols.

Re: Writing mathematical formulas as text in a ODS RTF document

chjones — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 19:01:24 GMT

Thank You, I will give that a shot. I have never used raw rtf code, so I will have to read up on that, but your approach sounds feasible.