topic Re: Get superscript and less-than-or-equal-to to show in SGPANEL labels in Graphics Programming

Get superscript and less-than-or-equal-to to show in SGPANEL labels

mariko5797 — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 21:07:14 GMT

As of right now, the output graph is writing out the text exactly rather than translating it to a superscript or less-than-or-equal-to symbol.

proc format;
 value $BMI
 	'Not Obese' 	= "BMI < 30 kg/m^{super 2}"
	'Obese'			= "30 ^{unicode 2264} BMI ^{unicode 2264} 40 kg/m^{super 2}"
	'Severely Obese'= "BMI > 40 kg/m^{super 2}"
	'All Subjects'	= "All Subjects";
run;

ods escapechar = "^";
proc sgpanel data = fig23 (where = (SPECTYPE ^in ("Breast Milk", "Plasma"))) pad = (top=5% bottom=5%) sganno = footnote3;
 panelby BMIGRP ABRV_SPECTYPE / layout = lattice onepanel novarname;
 histogram PCOMP / scale = count datalabel = count;
 format BMIGRP $BMI.;
run;

Re: Get superscript and less-than-or-equal-to to show in SGPANEL labels

ballardw — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 23:17:52 GMT

Try using *ESC* in place of the ^ in the format definitions.

Re: Get superscript and less-than-or-equal-to to show in SGPANEL labels

DanH_sas — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 04:59:37 GMT

There are a few issues issues here:

First, @ballardw is correct. You MUST use the default escape char sequence, which is (*ESC*), when using inline functions in PROC FORMAT for ODS Graphics output, . In the procedures, you can use the redefined character.

Second, the SUP and SUB functions are supported only in annotation in the SGPANEL procedure. However, you CAN use the Unicode equivalent of s superscript 2 in your PROC FORMAT, which is '00b2'x.

Third, your Unicode specifications should be wrapped in single quotes, followed by an 'x' (for hex). For example: (*ESC*){unicode '00b2'x}

Hope this helps!

Dan

Re: Get superscript and less-than-or-equal-to to show in SGPANEL labels

Ksharp — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 12:41:09 GMT

https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/2011/11/14/the-power-of-unicode/

https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/2015/07/29/unicode-in-formatted-data-sas-9-40m3/