Specifying Titles and Footnotes (3)

Enhancing and Exporting Charts and Plots

Specifying Titles and Footnotes

Default Values

When you specify options in the TITLE and FOOTNOTE statements, it's helpful to know the default option settings. The table below shows the default values for the COLOR=, FONT=, and HEIGHT= options.

Option	TITLE1 Defaults	Other Title and Footnote Defaults
COLOR=	First default color for the graphics device	First default color forthe graphics device
FONT=	SWISS	Hardware character set
HEIGHT=	2 CELLS	1 CELL

The illustration below shows the default title and footnote appearance. Notice that title and footnote space is allocated first, which reduces the area available for the chart or plot.

Display example of default title and footnote.

Here is the code that produced the graph above.

     title1 'Title1 Default: Swiss, 2 Cells';
     title2 'All Other Titles:';
     title3 'Default Font Is Hardware Character Set';
     title4 'Default Height Is 1 Cell';
     footnote1 'All Footnotes:';
     footnote2 'Default Font Is Hardware Character Set';
     footnote3 'Default Height Is 1 Cell';
     footnote4 ' ';
     proc gchart data=clinic.admit;
        hbar actlevel / sumvar=fee 
             patternid=midpoint sum;
        where sex='M';
        label actlevel='Activity';
        format fee dollar5.;
     run;