Manual set-up
Column headings are defined manually either when they differ from the row texts or when the automatic breakdown is not acceptable. The statements which do this are g and p.
In certain circumstances, Quantum will ignore the heading texts on the g statements and will use the element texts instead. It will, however, retain the column widths defined on the p statements. Quantum ignores g statements when any of the following are true:
▪Columns are suppressed by nzcol or smsup keywords.
▪The column axis is sorted by using sort on the l statement.
▪The table is sorted by using csort on the a, sectbeg, flt or tab statement.
▪The column headings defined on the g statements are too wide to fit on the page. In this case you’ll see the message ‘error: G-card width xx too wide for tab G space yy’ printed at the output stage of the run.
▪When setting up a breakdown, make sure that each column is wide enough to accommodate the largest value to be set in the column. If the value has percentages as well as absolutes, the breakdown must be large enough to contain the percentages set one character to the right of the absolutes, unless
flush or
pcpos is used. For information on positioning percentages in columns, see
Fully automatic set-up.
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