Date:         Mon, 8 Nov 2004 20:16:32 -0500
Reply-To:     Don Henderson <donaldjhenderson@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From:         Don Henderson <donaldjhenderson@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: ODS + RPOC REPORT+ _webout  and how to keep the amount of
              spaces              between words intact?
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The default behavior of HTML when displayed browsers is to suppress multiple
spaces to a single space. This is not something that you have any control
over.

If you want to preserve spaces you have three (and possibly more) choices:

1. Use the deprecated <PRE> . . . . </PRE> tags. Multiple spaces within PRE
tags are not compressed, e.g.,

COMMENT='<PRE>ECG_B=QT/(RR/1000)**1/2 ECG_F=QT/(RR/1000)**1/3
RR=VR/60</PRE>'

2. Don't use spaces at all - use the HTML attribute &nbsp; (where both the &
and the ; are part of the value. &nbsp; stands (I believe) for non-breakable
space. So if you want, for example the string to be displayed with two
embedded blanks, you would assign it as follows in your sas code:

COMMENT=' ECG_B=QT/(RR/1000)**1/2
ECG_F=QT/(RR/1000)**1/3&nbsp;&nbsp;RR=VR/60 '

and note that since this string is enclosed in single quotes SAS won't
attempt to resolve what it might think is a macro variable reference.

3. Generate a PDF rather than HMTL output (this does make generating links
much more difficult however).

For both options 1 and 2 you might have to also tell ODS to not encode the <
> tags.

When you say you did it before was that generating HTML displayed by a
browser?

HTH,
-don h

-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Igor
Kurbeko
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 5:23 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: ODS + RPOC REPORT+ _webout and how to keep the amount of spaces
between words intact?

Hi, guys.

I use ODS + PROC REPORT + _webout.





ods html body=_webout  (dynamic) rs=none style=sasweb

headtext="<pre><style type='text/css'>table
{color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#800080}</style>

               <script language='JavaScript'
src=/stars/headstuff_graph.js></script></pre>";



.........................................



else if name='test' then  COMMENT=' ECG_B=QT/(RR/1000)**1/2
ECG_F=QT/(RR/1000)**1/3           RR=VR/60 ' ;





And I'd like to keep the spaces between terms in the pattern above.

But the are compressed in the final output like this:



ECG_B=QT/(RR/1000)**1/2 ECG_F=QT/(RR/1000)**1/3 RR=VR/60



I was able to do it before but something has changed. (Is Monospace
font?)

Any suggestions on how to fix it?



Thanks



Igor Kurbeko

Clinical Programmer Analyst

678 336 4328

ikurbeko@atherogenics.com <mailto:ikurbeko@atherogenics.com>
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