Full width title underline

SAS ODS styles provide opportunities to enhance the appearance of reports. To do this it is required to set an ODS escapechar to establish the inline formatting symbol. I like to use the tilde (~) symbol as in ODS escapechar = "~" ;.

Once the escapechar has been established, use it to set style properties using this syntax "~{style[ property = value ]text to display}" ;.

If you want to have a centered title with a thin red line underneath it spanning the full width of the page, use the width = 100% value (outputwidth= can also be used). The first example below uses the default width= value and is not what was desired. The second attempt works as expected.

options nodate nonumber ;
ods listing close ;
ods escapechar = "~" ;

ods pdf file = "c:\temp\partialline.pdf" ;
  title j = c "~{style[ borderbottmcolor = red 
                        borderbottomwidth = 0.5pt 
                        color = black]SASHELP.CLASS Report}" ;
  proc report data = sashelp.class( obs = 2 ) ;
  run ;
ods pdf close ;


  
ods pdf file = "c:\temp\fullline.pdf" ;
  title j = c "~{style[ borderbottmcolor = red 
                        borderbottomwidth = 0.5pt 
                        width = 100% 
                        color = black]SASHELP.CLASS Report}" ;
  proc report data = sashelp.class( obs = 2 ) ;
  run ;
ods pdf close ;


ods listing ;

UPDATE: 21Dec2015 - from SAS Tech support to create horizontal line across page in ODS PDF:

ODS PDF TEXT = "~{style[ borderbottomcolor = red borderbottomwidth = 0.5pt width = 100%] }" ;

ODS Styled Brochure

The below code shows how you can create a SAS ODS PDF styled brochure. Picture formats are used along with the dynamic putn() function to display the numeric attributes of the Audi R8. The source code reveals how to use ODS TEXT = with various ~{style}s. Proc report headers and borders are suppressed via rules = none and frame = void settings. Here is a link to the generated PDF file

proc format ;
   picture engine low - high = "099" ( prefix = 'v' ) ;
   picture mph    low - high = "999 mph" ;
   picture lbs    low - high = "9,999 (lb)" ;
   picture sec    low - high = "09.9 sec." ( mult = 10 ) ;
run ;

data x ;
  input name & $32. val format $ ;
  datalines ;
  Engine  10 engine.
  Horsepower  550 comma.-l
  0 to 60 mph  3.3 sec.
  Top Speed  197 mph.
  Price as Configured  198800 dollar9.
  Curb Weight  3660 lbs.
  ;
run ;

data r8( keep = bullet name value ) ;
  bullet = "6c"x ;
  set x ;
  value = putn( val, format ) ;
run ;

options
  nodate
  nonumber
  orientation = portrait ;

ods escapechar = '~'  
  noresults  
  noproctitle ;
title ;
footnote ;

ods listing close ;
ods pdf
  file         = "c:\temp\audir8.pdf"
  author       = "&sysuserid."
  dpi          = 300
  subject      = "Audi R8"
  notoc
  bookmarklist = hide
  startpage    = no ;

  ods text = "~{style
    [ preimage = 'c:\temp\auditruth.jpg'
      fontsize = 28pt
      fontweight = bold]          2015 Audi R8}" ;
  ods text = "~{style
    [ outputwidth = 100%
      borderbottomcolor = red
      borderbottomwidth = 1pt ]}" ;
  ods text = "~2n" ;
  ods text = "~{style
    [ preimage = 'c:\temp\audir8blue.jpg' 
      just     = center ]}" ;

  proc report
    data = r8
    nowd
    noheader
    style( report ) = [ rules = none frame = void ] ;

    column bullet name value ;
    define bullet / style( column ) = [ font_face = wingdings just = c ] ;
    define name   / style( column ) = [ font_face = arial font_size = 18pt ] ;
    define value  / style( column ) = [ font_face = arial font_size = 18pt ] ;
  run ;

ods pdf close ;
ods listing ;