SAS 9.4 Output Delivery System, 3rd Edition

LISTING output

SAS procedure output that is in a monospace font. All text in listing output has the

same font size, and no special font styles are applied to it.

marker

a symbol such as a diamond, a circle, or a triangle that is used to indicate the location

of, or annotate, a data point in a plot or graph.

markup family

See ODS markup family

markup language

a set of codes that are embedded in text in order to define layout and certain content.

measured RTF

a tagset that enables users to specify how and where page breaks occur in RTF

documents and when to place titles and footnotes into the body of a page.

memory variable

within an ODS event, an area of memory that contains numeric data, character data,

or lists of numeric or character data. A memory variable can be classified as a

dictionary variable if it is created with a subscript that contains a key, or a list

variable if it is created with a subscript that is empty or contains an index. If you do

not specify a key or an index, then the memory variable is a numeric or character

scalar variable, depending on the variable's value.

ODS

See Output Delivery System

ODS destination

a designation that the Output Delivery System uses to generate a specific type of

output. Types of ODS destinations include but are not limited to HTML, XML,

listing, PostScript, RTF, and SAS data sets.

ODS document

a hierarchy of output objects created by the DOCUMENT procedure. These objects

are in an unformatted form and are placed in a SAS item store.

ODS document path

the location of an entry within an ODS document.

ODS entry

an item in an ODS document. An ODS entry can be either a link, an output object, a

file, or a partitioned data set.

ODS event

within a tagset definition, an action that causes output to be generated. Events are

usually triggered by SAS but can also be triggered by other events.

ODS Graphics

an extension to ODS that is used to create analytical graphs using the Graph

Template Language.

ODS markup family

a group of ODS statements that produce SAS output that is formatted using a markup

language such as HTML (HyperText Markup Language), XML (Extensible Markup

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