Indentation in proc report

[_Hopper]

Can you indent items where a line feed is also being used in ODS RTF?

example: Item1||"~n~S={leftmargin = 0.2in}"||item2||"~n~S={leftmargin = 0.2in}"||item3

The end result would be this:

Item1

       Item2 blah blah

       item2 wraps here

               Item 3 blah blah

               item 3 wraps here, etc.

[Kathryn_SAS · Accepted solution]

In my tests, the INDENT= style attribute only applies to the first value. You can try a hanging indent, but the subsequent lines will have the same indention. Another alternative is to add spaces and then use the ASIS=ON style attribute. I have included an example below.

data test;
item1='Item 1';
item2='Item 2';
item3='Item 3';
text= '~S={indent=.25in}'||Item1||"~n"||"~S={indent=.5in}"||item2||"~n~S={indent=.75in}"||item3;
text1=Item1||"~n"||item2||"~n"||item3;
text2=Item1||"~n    "||item2||"~n          "||item3;
run;

ods listing close;
ods escapechar='~';
ods rtf file='test.rtf';

proc report data=test;
column text text1 text2;
define text / display style(column)=[cellwidth=2in];
define text1 / display style(column)={cellwidth=2in 
                               protectspecialchars=off 
                               pretext='\pnhang\fi-220\li220 '};
define text2 / display style(column)=[cellwidth=2in asis=on];
run;

ods rtf close;
ods listing;