Symbols in SAS Scatter Plot zz from ucla ats

There are many other symbols available from SAS.  To use these, you need to specify a specific font. SAS fonts that contain special symbols include:

• CARTOG
• SPECIAL
• ELECTRON
• MATH
• WEATHER
• MUSIC
• MARKER

We can use SAS proc gfont to see the symbols and the corresponding character codes.  The character codes are the letters on the keyboard that are associated with a particular symbol.  In the example below, a left-pointing triangle is the symbol and the capital letter A is the character code.  The program below can be used to see what symbols that font called Marker has.

goptions reset = all ctext = blue htext = 6pct ftext = swissb ;
title "Special symbols with the Marker font";
proc gfont name = marker ctext = red showroman nobuild;
run;