Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Simulating Listing Output with FILE PRINT ODS

What if you really like the way the listing output looks? Some people ask whether their ODS output can look like the output sent to the LISTING destination. Generally speaking, the use of ODS style templates is what gives each destination the particular look and feel that it has. If you create a custom style template and modify all the elements, such as proportional fonts and colors from the style, then you can come close to the look and feel of listing output. For example, the following PROC TEMPLATE step creates a style called LOOKLIST. It changes all the fonts for all the font attributes to Courier 8pt, which is a fixed pitch, or monospace, font.

The ODS PATH statement causes PROC TEMPLATE to ...