formatting one word within text with proc report

[Tobias_N]

Hi,

I want to display text in region containers in a pdf-document. It workes fine with ods text = "..."; but since I wanted to have bullet point lists I switched to proc report. Now I face some new problems:

data text;

text =
"exercitation ullamco laboris ^{style [font_weight=bold]nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi} consequat. Quis aute " ||

"^{newline}^{newline}" ||

"This works: ^{thispage} von ^{lastpage}";

...

proc report

data = text nowindows noheader;

columns text;

define text / display style=[width=22cm];

1. The data (text) is provided through an ms excel file. I import this file to a data set. Next I write the text with proc report to the odf file. Is this the best way?

2. I can not use inline formatting in proc report with the ods escape character. Part of the text to display:

"exercitation ullamco laboris ^{style [font_weight=bold]nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi} consequat. Quis aute "

Is there a way to format single words within the text in proc report? In case not (or no practical way): What is a decent alternative?

Id be really happy to get any help because searching the internet did not help me 😞

Cheers, Tobi

[Ksharp · Accepted solution]

How about this:

data text;

text ="exercitation ullamco laboris ~S={font_weight=bold}nisi ~S={}ut aliquid ex ea commodi";

run;

ods escapechar='~';

ods pdf file='x.pdf' style=sasweb;

proc report

data = text nowindows noheader;

columns text;

define text / display style=[width=22cm];

run;

ods pdf close;

Xia Keshan

[Tobias_N]

Thanks! This is a very easy fix.