Hi!
The answer to your first question is NO, you should NOT expect that ODS in-line formatting works in SAS/Graph. Here's why:
SAS/Graph does its thing in a pretty much self-contained bubble -- if the SAS/Graph code is enclosed in an ODS "sandwich" (to HTML or PDF), when SAS/Graph is done, it now has an image that the ODS destination can deal with.
If the image is going to HTML, then ODS builds an HTML
tag to point to the location of the image.
If the image is going to RTF or PDF, then the image is converted to those internal formats -- but even if you used the in-line formatting in labels -- at this point, the conversion of the graph is more of a "mechanical" operation -- from one picture format to another picture format -- so there is really no visibility of any in-line formatting at this point because if they are there, they are just part of the picture.
If the image is going to a SAS/Graph catalog or to a color printer on the mainframe or to a pen plotter or to a file there's a good chance that ODS is not involved with SAS/Graph at all. Basically, SAS/Graph does what it needs to do to make the picture and then it sends the picture whereever it needs to go -- all ODS gets from SAS/Graph is a picture in some form or another.
Only the Graph Titles and Footnotes can be "touched" with ODS and your choice there is to keep them within the boundary of the graph area or to move them outside the boundary of the graph and into the control of ODS.
This means that you have to use SAS/Graph techniques to do the super or sub-scripting in your axes labels. The SAS/Graph documentation and Tech Support FAQ are pretty helpful here. Look in the documentation for this example:
Example 2. Specifying Logarithmic Axes or in the Tech Support FAQ for this sample:
http://support.sas.com/ctx/samples/index.jsp?sid=416&tab=about
If you need more help getting your super/subscripts to work, Tech Support has folks with the graph expertise to help you.
http://support.sas.com/techsup/contact/index.html
Good luck,
cynthia