topic ods text issue in SAS Programming

ods text issue

Niugg2010 — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 01:42:27 GMT

I am preparing a figure and it has title. I do not want to use TITLE statement, because I do not want the text and figure merged together.

So I used ods text to output text, like below. I want "company name" is at left, "study" is at center and "Protocol" is at right. However the text can not be adjusted properly.

If I used TITLE statement, the text could be very easily adjusted.

Can someone help me out? Eigher to adjust the text with ods text, or to use title but to separate the text and figure. Thanks in advance.

ods text="^S={just=l}company name ^S={just=c}study ^S={just=r} Protocol";

title j=l "Company name" j=c "Study" j=r "Protocol";

Re: ods text issue

Niugg2010 — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 01:44:08 GMT

I forgot to mention that I outputted the figure and text in rtf file.

Re: ods text issue

ballardw — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 07:36:20 GMT

ODS Text is not very bright and you have to take control of a great many things. You might try setting the WIDTH of the output to 100% of the page width. Without a known width the Ods Text processor doesn't understand that you want to use the whole width of the page. I don't have access to code currently where I have done this in the past but I think I used something like Width=8in in the first of the Style options. 8in = 8 inches, and should match your margin settings. You need to make sure it affects the whole string, use (), otherwise the first value may get the entire width.

I suspect that you are currently getting the 3 items with basically just a space between them if I remember correctly from working through this a while ago.

Re: ods text issue

Ksharp — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 11:48:06 GMT

You need NOGTITLE option.

ods tagsets.rtf file='c:\temp\temp.rtf' nogtitle   style=journal ;
proc sgplot data=sashelp.class;
title j=l "Company name" j=c "Study" j=r "Protocol";
   scatter y=height x=weight / group=sex;
   xaxis label= "Females are second in the data  set and legend.";
run;
ods tagsets.rtf close;

Re: ods text issue

Niugg2010 — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 13:55:06 GMT

Ballardw, I tried to set width in style, it does not work. Anyway, Thank you for your help.

Re: ods text issue

Niugg2010 — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 13:56:09 GMT

Ksharp, Thank you very much. It works, not only for ods tagsets.rtf, also it works for ods rtf.