Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Applying Inline Formatting

As shown in the previous example, inline formatting enables you to make simple formatting changes in specific parts of your output, and for specific output destinations. Inline formatting allows you to specify the style and layout characteristics of almost any cell or line in your output.

For example, if you'd like to add footnote references to some of the labels in your output, you can use inline formatting to add the footnote numbers as superscripts. The following program demonstrates this technique by adding footnotes to the row labels of PROC MEANS output.

The first thing you need to do to use inline formatting is to designate an escape character to be used to identify inline formatting. It needs to be a character ...