Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Understanding the Default Style in SAS 9.2

SAS 9.2 introduced a new style inheritance structure. The style template ancestor in SAS 9.2 for all style templates is Base.Template.Style, and as shown in Figure 14.4, the source code is documented with the text that it acts as the implicit parent. The Default style inherits definitions from Base.Template.Style.

The following PROC TEMPLATE step displays in the SAS log the source code for Base.Template.Style. Figure 14.4 shows the code from the first DEFINE statement to the section that contains the SystemTitle style element.

PROC TEMPLATE;
  SOURCE BASE.TEMPLATE.STYLE;
RUN;

The SystemTitle element in the Base.Template.Style definition is similar to the SAS 9.1.3 SystemTitle element in that it uses the ...