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FONTALIAS

FONTALIAS


Assigns an OS/2 font to one of the SAS fonts

Default: varies (see table in Details)
Valid in: configuration file, SAS invocation
OS/2 specifics: all

Syntax
Details
Example

Syntax

-FONTALIAS "SAS-font" "host-specific-font"

"SAS-font"
specifies the SAS font you want to replace. The name of the font must be enclosed in double quotation marks.

"host-specific-font"
specifies the OS/2 font that you want to assign. The name of the font must be enclosed in double quotation marks.

Details

The FONTALIAS system option allows you to assign an OS/2 font wherever a particular SAS font is used.

The default font aliases for OS/2 are as follows:

SAS font OS/2 font
Times Times New Roman
Helvetica Helvetica
Courier Courier
Symbol Symbol Set
Script Times New Roman
AvantGarde Courier
Bookman Times New Roman
Schoolbook Times New Roman
Palatino Times New Roman
Dingbats Symbol Set

Example

The system option 

 -fontalias "Times" "Courier"
tells the SAS System to use Courier wherever the Times SAS font is requested.


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