Date:         Thu, 5 May 2005 10:07:21 -0400
Reply-To:     Quentin McMullen <quentin_mcmullen@BROWN.EDU>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Quentin McMullen <quentin_mcmullen@BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Save and restore titles and footnotes.
Comments: To: datanull@GMAIL.COM

Hi _null_,

Silly me, I didn't take enough time reading your post.  Indeed, proc
goptions does a better job than I expected in displaying re-usable
title/footnote information. I had thought there would be more problems along
the line of those Richard pointed out.

I see that GOPTIONS writes to the log.  If SAS changed it to write to an
output destination, it would be great to be able to use ODS to capture this
information in a dataset, which would avoid the need to muck about with proc
printto.

Kind Regards,
--Quentin

On Wed, 4 May 2005 16:01:30 -0700, data _null_; <datanull@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>Hi Quentin,
>
>Actually I believe it does.  I will need to test it tomorrow when I
>return to work.  Check out the UG for PROC GOPTIONS.  The example shows
>J= title and footnote parameters.
>
>As for macro scoping I would just make a "rule".  Macros shall not
>create variables outside their scope.  They may alter them.  Sort of
>like a CALL routine.  I know you discussed that option but did not like
>it.  To me it just makes life easier.
>
>Best regards,
>
>data _null_;