Creating Output Using Graph Templates and the SGRENDER Procedure

The last component of the ODS Statistical Graphics framework to cover is the Graph Template Language (GTL). GTL is used only with template-based graphics. If you want to alter the output created by PROC ANOVA, for example, you could use the ODS TRACE ON statement to determine the name of graph templates used in creating your graphics output, just as we used ODS TRACE to find out the name of table templates for tabular output. Then you could modify the GTL code to create a changed template for use. However, instead of modifying the graph from a procedure, the next example creates a graph template that PROC SGRENDER uses to construct our graphs.

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