italicize a single character and superscript the next character for a column header ODS RTF

[Chang]

hi,

I would like to show one of my column headers as 

where h is italicized, and 2 is not italicized and in superscript. This symbol is commonly used to mean heritability estimate in genetic studies.  

I ended up trying a mixture of RTF control words /i and ^{sup 2} to get the italic effect and to mark 2 in superscript. But I am able to just italicize h. It is not clear to me how to end the RTF effect. I haven't find a reference that uses ^{ } to italicize characters but it would be great if this is possible. The RTF control words appear to apply an effect to every character within the quote. But what I need is different effects on different characters.    

I have built a macro for writing repetitive DEFINE column / display "header"  for me. It has been working well. My column headers are shown in the cName= option when the macro is called.

Here is my macro:

%macro def_display(	cVar=			/*character variable*/	
					,cName=						/*name of the character variable*/	
					,isFmt=N						/*apply a format to the variable or not*/	 
					,cFmt=							/*which format*/	
					,cWide=25pt				/*cell width*/
					,headerAlign=center 	/*alignment of header text in a column: left, center, right*/
					,colAlign=right 			/*alignment of content in a column: left, center, right, d (decimal point) */
					,marginRight=0
					,background=white 		/*color of background in a column*/
					,foreground=black		/*color of foreground (i.e. font color) in a column*/
					);

	define	&cVar.	/	display	"&cName." 	
		%if &isFmt.=Y %then 
			%do;
					format= &cFmt.
					style(header)={just=&headerAlign.}
					style(column)={just=&colAlign. cellwidth= &cWide. rightmargin=&marginRight. background=&background. foreground=&foreground.};
			%end;
		%else	
			%do;
					style(header)={just=&headerAlign.}
					style(column)={just=&colAlign. cellwidth= &cWide. rightmargin=&marginRight. background=&background. foreground=&foreground.};
			%end; 
%mend def_display;

When the macro is called as:

%def_display(	cVar=h2_liab ,		cName=\i h \sup 2,	 cWide=1 cm,	headerAlign=right, colAlign=right);

It gives a h2 header as this output:

When the macro is called as :

%def_display(	cVar=h2_liab ,		cName=\i h ^{sup 2},	 cWide=1 cm,	headerAlign=right, colAlign=right);

It gives an output as :

Please advise if it is possible to mark my header as 

Thanks

[ballardw]

ODS would look something like ^{style[fontstyle=italic]h}^{sup 2}

If the 2 comes out italic then try ^{style[fontstyle=italic]h}^{style[fontstyle=roman]sup 2}

[Cynthia_sas · Accepted solution]

Hi:

  I found that it worked better if I used the unicode instruction for superscript 2:

Cynthia