topic Re: Sas ods footnote : left margin in SAS Programming

Sas ods footnote : left margin

SASdevAnneMarie — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 16:45:17 GMT

Hello Experts,

Do you know how to indicate the left margin for the footnote ?

Thank you for your help !

Re: Sas ods footnote : left margin

Cynthia_sas — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 00:25:57 GMT

Hi:
It depends to a certain extent on your ODS destination. Your screen shot looks like RTF or PDF, but could also be a black and white HTML report. Typically, for "paged" destinations, like RTF and PDF the margins of the document (set with the SAS system options) are used for the margins of the title and footnote (so if you have a leftmargin value of 1 in, and you left justify your footnote or title, then the title or footnote text will start at the left margin of 1in). For HTML based destinations, there's not really a margin on an HTML page because the output is meant to be displayed on a browser screen.
What code have you tried and what ODS destination are you usng? If you are using RTF or PDF, what are your system option settings for the margins. Are you centering the footnote or left justifying the footnote? It's hard to provide constructive suggestions with only a tiny screen shot for reference.
Cynthia

Re: Sas ods footnote : left margin

SASdevAnneMarie — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 10:22:13 GMT

Thank you for the help, Cynthia.

My code is :

OPTION NODATE NONUMBER;
		OPTIONS PAPERSIZE=A4;
		options orientation=portrait;
		OPTIONS TOPMARGIN=.001 in BOTTOMMARGIN=.001 in LEFTMARGIN=.001 in RIGHTMARGIN=.001 in;
		ODS NORESULTS;
		ODS PDF FILE = "&Publipostage.\&Code..pdf" dpi=1800;
		ODS ESCAPECHAR = "^";

        footnote1 J=left font =Arial HEIGHT=8 pt  "XXXX"; 
        footnote2 J=left font =Arial HEIGHT=8 pt  "XXXX";

Re: Sas ods footnote : left margin

Cynthia_sas — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 14:55:55 GMT

Hi: That's a very, very tiny left margin. So, by default, your footnote is going to be place nearly at the left side of the page. You could try indent= or leftmargin= as style overrides on your footnote statement, but the easiest thing to do would be to change your system option value for the left margin.

Cynthia

Re: Sas ods footnote : left margin

SASdevAnneMarie — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 15:25:43 GMT

Thank you Cynthia,

How to indicate the leftmargin in style overrides please? When I do this : footnote1 J=left leftmargin=2cm font =Arial HEIGHT=8 pt "XXX", the world leftmargin=2cm is printed on the file.

Re: Sas ods footnote : left margin

Cynthia_sas — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 18:21:30 GMT

Hi:

You either have to do the style override as an ODS ESCAPECHAR type of override or as a style template override. Depending on the destination, the ODS ESCAPECHAR type of override may or may not work. Also, depending on the destination, the style template may or may not work. Both approaches seem to work with PDF.

Cynthia

ODS ESCAPECHAR:

STYLE TEMPLATE (did not show ODS ESCAPECHAR just to show style template behavior by itself):

Re: Sas ods footnote : left margin

SASdevAnneMarie — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 20:13:02 GMT

Thank you very much, Cynthia!

That works !