topic Re: How to avoid warning for footnote in ODS and Base Reporting

How to avoid warning for footnote

Lenith — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:26:33 GMT

I'm getting warning in log when using superscript 'Monotype Shorts" font symbol in the footnote.

Ex.

ods rtf ;
footnote1 height=5 PCT justify=left
font='Monotype Sorts' color=CX009900 ^{super '6E'X} font=Ariel " Point 1";
data a;
a='a';
run;
proc print; run;
ods rtf close;

Log:

WARNING: The FOOTNOTE statement is ambiguous due to invalid options or unquoted text.

If I try to quote i.e. "^{super '6E'X}", It displays some different symbols. Tried to store in macro variable however didn't work. Any solution ? Please don't ask to use different font.

Re: How to avoid warning for footnote

Quentin — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:55:03 GMT

Edit: Sorry, below is wrong. : )

Hi,

The quoted font name with a space is fine. The problem is the superscript part is text for the title, so it needs to be in quotes, e.g.:

footnote1 height=5 PCT justify=left
font='Monotype Sorts' color=CX009900 "^{super '6E'X}" font=Arial  " Point 1";

Re: How to avoid warning for footnote

Lenith — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:05:33 GMT

Thanks for reply, however that doesn't work. It displays a set of symbols instead of desired one because quote itself taken as a keypunch for a symbol.

Re: How to avoid warning for footnote

Quentin — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:27:32 GMT

Gotcha, I see what you're doing now. It's not a font problem. This code works:

footnote1 "AAA"  "^{super foo}" "BBB";

You need the ^{super foo} part inside quotes so that SAS knows it is part of the title value, and not an option for the title statement.

But you're trying to put a hex code in there, like:

footnote1 "AAA"  "^{super '6E'X}" "BBB";

And when you do that, SAS sees '6E'x as a 5-character string, instead of a hex value.

Someone else will know a solution. I thought maybe:

footnote1 "AAA"  '^{super ''6E''X}' "BBB";

But that gives the same results as above.

Maybe there's some other way to encode '6E'X that doesn't require quotes? Wait, isn't '6E'x just the character n?

Looks like I get the result you want with just:

footnote1 height=5 PCT justify=left
font='Monotype Sorts' color=CX009900 "^{super n}" font=Arial  " Point 1";

Re: How to avoid warning for footnote

Lenith — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:37:32 GMT

Tried with 'n' letter but that also didn't work. It prints 6 different symbols before "Point 1".

Re: How to avoid warning for footnote

Lenith — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:41:44 GMT

As soon as we put quotes after font "Monotype Sorts'is declared, quotes are interpreted as symbols, and that's problem i believe.

Re: How to avoid warning for footnote

Quentin — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:16:33 GMT

That last example with letter n I posted works for me on PC SAS 9.4M4:

ods escapechar='^' ;

ods rtf file='c:\junk\me.rtf';
footnote1 height=5 PCT justify=left
font='Monotype Sorts' color=CX009900 "^{super n}" font=Arial  " Point 1";
data a;
    a='a';
run;

proc print; run;
ods rtf close;

There are no nested quotes, so all of the quotes have the usual meaning, to define a text string.

Re: How to avoid warning for footnote

Lenith — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:45:27 GMT

Oh yes, That worked. May be I did something wrong last time.
Thanks alot @Quentin 🙂

Re: How to avoid warning for footnote

Tom — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:41:59 GMT

Not that if you did want to use hexcode that did not happen to be something simple like a lowercase letter you could use the byte function to generate it as a string.

"^{super %qsysfunc(byte(06Ex))}"

Re: How to avoid warning for footnote

Lenith — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 20:42:14 GMT

Thank you @Tom . It did work as well. I was under impression that byte function works with numbers 1-255 only.

Re: How to avoid warning for footnote

Tom — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 21:09:36 GMT

BYTE() should work with numbers from zero to 255. Or in hexadecimal notation from 0x to 0FFx.