Output ASCII text

The disk contains over 120 models in files that may contain source and executable code, sample input lilcs, other data files, sample output files, and in many cases, model documentation in WordPerfect, ASCII text or other formats. The disk contains IMES with information on >clecting tin appropriate model, literature citations on validation of models in actual applications, and a demonstration of a model uncertainty protocol. 

O The FORMCHAR option is specified to get the simple ASCII text results to appear in a platform independent way. We discuss output formatting later in this chapter. 

In traditional ASCII text output, PROC TABULATE does provide a continued flag when the output spans multiple pages. (This is not the case with some ODS destinations, such as ODS RTF, where there is no continued flag.)... 

DEFINE OPTIONS FOR ASCII TEXT OUTPUT options nodate nocenter Is = 70... 

Because simple ASCII text is the destination for the output, some TITLE and FOOTNOTE statements had to be padded on the right with spaces to get titles and footnotes to left align. 

ASCII text is the traditional SAS output found in the SAS LST file, which is the ODS FISTING destination. With ASCII text output you are working with a nonproportional monospace font, and the only real control you have over your output presentation is in using the SAS PAGESIZE and LINESIZE options. However, traditional ASCII text with a monospace font is not a bad option. By using ASCII text with a monospace font you get these benefits ... 

You can mix complicated DATA NULL reports with more efficient PROC REPORT reports when necessary. Because your output is ASCII text with both types of reports, it is easy to combine these two reporting tools and still have a consistent look and feel to your reporting. 

You can focus more on content and avoid spending time making output pretty. In other words, ASCII text is usually cheaper to produce. 

PROC REPORT uses more of its features with ASCII text than it does when you send output to other destinations. For instance, order and group variables are repeated at the tops of subsequent pages when you are reporting to the listing destination. 

If attractive proportional font output is not required, I recommend that you always do your reporting in SAS with simple ASCII text. It is usually cheaper to produce and more flexible with page layout than any other output destination. 

However, the power of any particular screen reader is in the degree to which the other capabilities dictated by the use of the GUI are achieved. The fundamental differences in the ways that a text-only command-line interface (CLI) and a GUI provide output to the video screen present access problems for persons who are blind. These are related to both the ways in which internal control of the computer display is accomplished and the ways in which the GUI is employed by the computer user (Boyd et al., 1990). The CLI-type interfaces use a memory buffer to store text characters for display. Since all the displayed text can be represented by ASCII code, it is relatively easy to use a software program and to divert text from the screen to a speech synthesizer or Braille display. However, this type of screen reader is unable to provide access to charts, tables, or plots because of their graphic features. This type of system is also limited in the features that can be used with text. For example, features such as size, shape, and font or alternative graphic forms are not captured in standard ASCII text code. 

The Visualization module can display the information of the training samples and the test samples by 3D graph. Both training and test results can be output in ASCII text file or 2D graph mode. The main interface of... 

The program uses two ASCII input files for the SCF and properties stages of the calculation. There is a text output file as well as a number of binary or ASCII data files that can be created. The geometry is entered in fractional coordinates for periodic dimensions and Cartesian coordinates for nonperiodic dimensions. The user must specify the symmetry of the system. The input geometry must be oriented according to the symmetry axes and only the symmetry-unique atoms are listed. Some aspects of the input are cumbersome, such as the basis set specification. However, the input format is documented in detail. 

Various databases can also be output by the interpreter, e.g. lists of element and species names, text files for labeling printed and plotted output, and a symbolic reaction matrix. This information is distributed to individual ASCII files, from which they may be read by subsequent parts of the simulation package for use in the appropriate task. 

During the MultiCASE prediction, the output of the prediction is displayed in a text window on the screen (Figure 4c). This text will be automatically saved in an ASCII-file with a dat-file format. In parallel a second ASCII-file with a dat-file format will be saved when the prediction for a batch of molecules is performed, containing a short summary of all molecules (Figure 5). 

HTML is an ASCII format and can be edited with normal text editors, but syntactic correctness is better maintained if dedicated HTML editors are used. HTML editors are now readily available for all platforms and many word processors and presentation programs have Internet converters and assistants which help with the conversion of legacy data for Web presentation. The quality of these tools varies very much, and some output results only remain bearable thanks to the robustness of Web browsers, which struggle to recover, after syntax errors, and somehow still manage to display the large number of pages which contain syntactical errors. 

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