special symbol in gplot labels

[GraphGuy]

What do you get when you run the following?...

goptions device=png;

axis1 label=(angle=90 font="albany amt" 'Here is a mu character:  '

font="albany amt/unicode" '03bc'x font="albany amt" '  ' font="albany amt/unicode" '006d'x);

axis2 offset=(15,15);

symbol1 value=circle interpol=boxcti;

proc gplot data=sashelp.class;

plot height*sex / vaxis=axis1 haxis=axis2;

run;

[Ken_oy]

,  here it is. you can see the "mu m' is in the middle of the v-axis

[GraphGuy]

Yep - it seems that maybe you've got an older version of SAS that had some quirks with angled y-axis text labels ... several small spacing issues were fixed in both 9.2 and 9.3.  I would definitely recommend upgrading to 9.3 if possible!

In the meantime, perhaps one work-around is to not rotate the y-axis label.  With such a short label, it would fit just as well non-rotated (and would be easier to read non-rotated). **This is the work-around I would recommend.

Another possible work-around might be to annotate the text for the y-axis label (if you really want it rotated).  In the worst-case, you could annotate each character separately, and put them anywhere you want.

[Ken_oy]

Yes, I agree. Using annotate we can do what ever we want in gplot. But the only problem is efficiency. Anyway, I am getting my 9.3 at the end of this month. I already learned about its improvement. Looking forward to having it :smileygrin:. Thanks for the advice again!

[GraphGuy]

And, as ballardw mentioned, you could try the SAS/Graph 'greek' software font.  The character won't be smooth/anti-aliased, but it's easier to get the spacing right with the software fonts:

goptions device=png;

axis1 label=(angle=90 font=swiss 'Here is a mu character:  '

font=greek 'm' font=swiss '  m');

axis2 offset=(15,15);

symbol1 value=circle interpol=boxcti;

proc gplot data=sashelp.class;

plot height*sex / vaxis=axis1 haxis=axis2;

run;

All the characters in the SAS/Graph 'greek' software font can be found in a table on the following page:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/graphref/63022/HTML/default/viewer.htm#font-font-lists.h...

[Ken_oy]

Yes, this code worked, amazing!! :smileylaugh:

Just to be a little picky, different fonts in one label do not look as natural as if fonts are same. I still prefer to use the code you and danH provided at the first time. I will wait for my 9.3 :smileygrin:, Thanks guys, very helpful!!!

The left one is from the geek/swiss fonts combined (in this way, we can use a lot of special symbols); the right pic is from the "latin1-supplement" code (in this way we can have very limited symbol options)