Date:         Thu, 1 Apr 2004 22:15:36 +1200
Reply-To:     don_stanley@paradise.net.nz
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From:         Don & Susann <don_stanley@PARADISE.NET.NZ>
Subject:      Using "Justify" in ODS RTF Output (rather than left/right/center
              justify)
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I was posed the question off list about how to write data to an ODS RTF
destination "justified". Justify is the option you get in word that
spreads text across the full width of a line and proportionally spaces
it out, as oppoed to left/right and center justify.

There doesn't seem to be an ODS style attribute for it, at least not
documented in V8.2. But you can do it quite easily by embedding a raw
RTF code (\qj) as follows (I've done all of the justification codes for
comparison). One question arises .. what would you use the
"distribution" justification for?

data test ;
  length mytext $ 200 ;
  mytext = '^S={protectspecialchars=off}\qj this is a long piece of text
that I would like to have displayed fully justified so that it spreads
across the line and proportionally spaces in between each word';output ;
  mytext = '^S={protectspecialchars=off}\ql this is a long piece of text
that I would like to have displayed left justified';output ;
  mytext = '^S={protectspecialchars=off}\qr this is a long piece of text
that I would like to have displayed right justified';output ;
  mytext = '^S={protectspecialchars=off}\qc this is a long piece of text
that I would like to have displayed center justified';output ;
  mytext = '^S={protectspecialchars=off}\qd this is a long piece of text
that I would like to have displayed distributed justified whatever that
may mean';output ;
  run ;

  ods rtf file='c:\temp\thisfile.rtf' ;

  ods escapechar="^" ;

  proc report data=test nowd ;
    column _all_ ;
  run ;

  ods rtf close ;
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Don Stanley, B.SC, Dip O.R.S, MNZCS
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