TEMPLATE Procedure: Creating a Style Template

Style Attribute Values

color
is a string that identifies a color. A color is defined in the following ways:
  • most of the color names that are supported by SAS/GRAPH. These names include the following:
    • a predefined SAS color (for example, blue or VIYG)
    • a red/green/blue (RGB) value (for example, CX0023FF)
    • a hue/light/saturation (HLS) value (for example, H14E162D)
    • a gray-scale value (for example, GRAYBB).
    • a red/green/blue transparency (RGBA) value (for example, a98FB9880)
    • a cyan/magenta/yellow/black (CMYK) value (for example, FFFFFF00)
    Note: RGBA color mode is not supported by Java devices. RGBA color mode is supported by ActiveX devices when the output is used in Microsoft applications.
  • an RGB value with a leading pound sign (#) rather than CX (for example, #0023FF).
  • one of the colors that exists in the SAS session when the style is used:
    • DMSBLUE
    • DMSRED
    • DMSPINK
    • DMSGREEN
    • DMSCYAN
    • DMSYELLOW
    • DMSWHITE
    • DMSORANGE
    • DMSBLACK
    • DMSMAGENTA
    • DMSGRAY
    • DMSBROWN
    • SYSBACK
    • SYSSECB
    • SYSFORE
    Note: Use these colors only when running SAS in the windowing environment.
  • an English description of an HLS. Such descriptions use a combination of words to describe the lightness, the saturation, and the hue (in that order). Use the Color Naming System to form a color in the following ways:
    • combining a chromatic hue with a lightness, a saturation, or both
    • combining the achromatic hue gray with a lightness
    • combining the achromatic hue black or white without qualifiers
    Use the words in the following table:
    Hue/Light/Saturation (HLS) Values
    Lightness
    Saturation
    Chromatic Hue
    Achromatic Hue
    Blue
    Black1
    Very dark
    Grayish
    Purple
    Dark
    Moderate
    Red
    Medium
    Strong
    Orange | brown
    Gray2
    Light
    Vivid
    Yellow
    Very light
    Green
    White1
    1Black and white cannot be combined with a lightness or a saturation value.
    2Gray cannot be combined with a saturation value.
    Combine these words to form a wide variety of colors. Here are examples:
    • light vivid green
    • dark vivid orange
    • light yellow
    Note: The Output Delivery System first tries to match a color with a SAS/GRAPH color. Thus, although brown and orange are interchangeable in the table, if you use them as unmodified hues, then they are different. The reason for this is that ODS interprets them as SAS colors, which are mapped to different colors.
    You can also specify hues that are intermediate between two neighboring colors. To do so, combine one of these adjectives with one of its neighboring colors:
    • reddish
    • orangish
    • brownish
    • yellowish
    • greenish
    • bluish
    • purplish
    • bluish purple
    • reddish orange
    • yellowish green
See:RBG Color Codes, HLS Color Codes, and Gray-Scale Color codes in SAS/GRAPH: Reference for information about SAS/GRAPH colors.
dimension
is a whole number, a percentage, or a nonnegative number followed by one of these units of measure:
Units of Measure for Dimension
cm
Centimeters
em
Standard typesetting measurement unit for width
ex
Standard typesetting measurement unit for height
in
Inches
mm
Millimeters
pt
A printer's point
Default:For the PRINTER destination, units of 1/150 of an inch
font-definition
is the name of a font, the font size, and font keywords. A font definition has this general format:
("font-face-1 <… , font-face-n>", font-size, keyword-list)
"font-face"
specifies the name of the font.
ODS styles can now use new TrueType fonts. All Universal Printers and many SAS/GRAPH devices use the FreeType library to render TrueType fonts for output in all of the operating environments that SAS software supports. In addition, by default, many SAS/GRAPH device drivers and all Universal Printers generate output using ODS styles, and these ODS styles use TrueType fonts. In addition to SAS Monospace and SAS Monospace Bold, 21 new TrueType fonts are made available when you install SAS:
  • five Latin fonts compatible with Microsoft
  • eight multilingual Unicode fonts
  • eight monolingual Asian fonts
For more information about the TrueType fonts, see the section "Printing with SAS" in SAS Language Reference: Concepts.
Restriction:You must enclose multiple font-face in quotation marks. If you specify only one font and if its name does not include a space character, then omit the quotation marks.
Tip:If you specify more than one font, then the destination device uses the first one that is installed on the system.
font-size
specifies the size of the font. font-size is a dimension or a number without units of measure. If you specify a dimension, then specify a unit of measure. Without a unit of measure the number becomes a size that is relative to all other font sizes in the HTML document. For more information, see dimension attribute value .
keyword-list
specifies the font weight, font style, and font width. Include one value for each, in any order. This table shows the keywords to use:
Font Keywords
Keywords for Font Weight
Keywords for Font Style
Keywords for Font Width
MEDIUM
ITALIC
NORMAL1
BOLD
ROMAN
COMPRESSED1
DEMI_BOLD1
SLANT
EXTRA_COMPRESSED1
EXTRA_BOLD1
NARROW1
LIGHT
WIDE1
DEMI_LIGHT1
EXPANDED1
EXTRA_LIGHT1
1Few fonts honor these values.
format
is a SAS format or a user-defined format.
integer | integer-list | integer-column-list
specifies a column variable that contains integer values, or a dynamic variable that refers to such a column variable.
integer
specifies a single integer.
integer-list
specifies a sequence of integer values, or a column variable that contains integer values, or a dynamic variable that refers to such a column variable or to a string.
integer-column-list
specifies a sequence of column variables, or a column variable that contains column variables, or a dynamic variable that refers to such a column variable, or a dynamic variable that refers to a string containing a list of column variables. Values within the columns must be integers.
style-reference
is a reference to an attribute that is defined in the current style or in the parent style (or beyond). The value used is the name of the style element followed by the name of an attribute, in parentheses, within that element. Style references have the following form:
style-attribute=target-style-element("target-style-attribute")
style-attribute
specifies the name of the style attribute.
target-style-element
specifies the name of the style element that contains the style attribute that you want to reference.
target-style-attribute
specifies the style attribute with the value that you want to use.
Requirement:You must enclose target-style-attribute in quotation marks if it is a user-supplied style attribute.
"string"
is a quoted character string.
user-defined-format
specifies a format created with the FORMAT procedure.
Restriction:user-defined-format can only be specified for data cells.
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