topic [Off-topic] Forum Markup in ODS and Base Reporting

[Off-topic] Forum Markup

Tim_SAS — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:21:58 GMT

In the SAS Procedures forum, Peter.C asked for information about the markup accepted by these forums.

I don't have any insider knowledge of the software driving these forums, and I've not been able to track down any official documentation for the markup it supports, but here are a few things I've been able to figure out just by trying other versions of wiki-style markup.

First, for the LT and GT symbols, use the HTML character entities < for < and > for >.

It doesn't come up very often, but you can use & for &.

To make text bold surround it with [b] and [/b]. For example [b]bold[/b]
To make text italic surround it with [i] and [/i]. For example [i]italic[/i]
To underscore text surround it with [u] and [/u]. For example [u]underscore[/u]

Surround code snippets with [pre] and [/pre] This changes to a typewriter font and retains spaces and line breaks. So

[pre]
proc print data=sashelp.class;
run;
[/pre]

becomes
[pre]
proc print data=sashelp.class;
run;
[/pre]

And finally, if you want to suppress the automatic conversion of the tags (like I've done for these examples), use [ for [ and ] for ]. Message was edited by: Tim@SAS

Re: [Off-topic] Forum Markup

ChrisNZ — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:43:30 GMT

Quote:

In the SAS Procedures forum, Peter.C asked for information about the markup accepted by these forums.

I find one can do pretty much anything using CSS styles.
The above is done using:

<span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:Comic Sans MS;color:white; background:#777; border:5px groove #ddd;padding:10px">

In the SAS Procedures forum, Peter.C asked for information about the
  <span style="color:red;text-decoration:overline underline">
  markup
  </span>
accepted by these forums.
</span>

Re: [Off-topic] Forum Markup

gzr2mz39 — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:09:57 GMT

What are the html character entities for single and double quotes?

Re: [Off-topic] Forum Markup

Tim_SAS — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:29:19 GMT

Apostrophe: '
Quote: "

Add a link to text in your post

Tim_SAS — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:26:18 GMT

[url=http://www.sas.com]SAS Institute Inc.[/url] becomes SAS Institute Inc.