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Garnett
Obsidian | Level 7

Greetings! 

I can write within PROC TEMPLATE:

layout overlay / yaxisopts=(label = "p((*ESC*){unicode theta})") ;

I'd like the symbol theta (and only theta) to appear in italics. How can I do this? v9.4

Thanks very much in advance!

Garnett

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Garnett
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi there! 

Thanks for your reply. The challenge is italicizing theta without italicizing "P("  and ")". Apparently it cannot be done.

 

I received a reply from tech support, pasted below:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Garnett,

 

There is not an option to italicize only a portion of an axis label.  The text style applies to the entire label.

 

You can use a DRAWTEXT statement to place the text on the graph to simulate the label.

 

Below is a simple sample that will suppress the default Y axis label and use the DRAWTEXT statement to place text to the left of the graph.  The PAD= option on the BEGINGRAPH statement adds space to the left of the graph where we want the text to be placed.  You might need to adjust the PAD= value, depending on how the text looks on your graph.

 

 

proc template;

  define statgraph plot;

    begingraph / pad=( left=5%);

     layout overlay / yaxisopts=(display=(ticks tickvalues line));

       scatterplot x=age y=height;

 

       drawtext textattrs=(style=normal) "P" textattrs=(style=italic) "(*ESC*){unicode theta}" / xspace=graphpercent yspace=wallpercent x=2 y=50

           rotate=90 anchor=center width=50;

 

     endlayout;

   endgraph;

  end;

run;

proc sgrender data=sashelp.class template=plot;

run;

 

 

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sdengland
SAS Employee

Give this a try:

layout overlay / 
   yaxisopts=(label = "(*ESC*){unicode theta}" labelattrs=(style=italic size=12pt));

To make it bold, add weight=bold to labelattrs=.

 

Garnett
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi there! 

Thanks for your reply. The challenge is italicizing theta without italicizing "P("  and ")". Apparently it cannot be done.

 

I received a reply from tech support, pasted below:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Garnett,

 

There is not an option to italicize only a portion of an axis label.  The text style applies to the entire label.

 

You can use a DRAWTEXT statement to place the text on the graph to simulate the label.

 

Below is a simple sample that will suppress the default Y axis label and use the DRAWTEXT statement to place text to the left of the graph.  The PAD= option on the BEGINGRAPH statement adds space to the left of the graph where we want the text to be placed.  You might need to adjust the PAD= value, depending on how the text looks on your graph.

 

 

proc template;

  define statgraph plot;

    begingraph / pad=( left=5%);

     layout overlay / yaxisopts=(display=(ticks tickvalues line));

       scatterplot x=age y=height;

 

       drawtext textattrs=(style=normal) "P" textattrs=(style=italic) "(*ESC*){unicode theta}" / xspace=graphpercent yspace=wallpercent x=2 y=50

           rotate=90 anchor=center width=50;

 

     endlayout;

   endgraph;

  end;

run;

proc sgrender data=sashelp.class template=plot;

run;

 

 

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