Quentin,

Some one more knowledgable than I may come along and correct me and if I am wrong I hope they do.

As to yoru question I would have to say no, this is from the online RTF documentation:

<snippett start>.... The RTF destination became production in Release 8.1 of the SAS System. This ODS destination creates output that can be read by various word processing packages including Microsoft Word and WordPerfect. As in the HTML destination, in RTF you can use PROC TEMPLATE to modify the colors, fonts, margins, and so forth. The PROC TEMPLATE documentation lists the available style elements and attributes. Some of the style elements and attributes are HTML-specific, but most can be used with the RTF destination as well. Unlike the HTML destination, the RTF destination creates only a body file.

<snippett end>...

I am not wholly sure that it is lagging behind but perhaps not as well understood as HTML.

Toby Dunn

From: Quentin McMullen <quentin_mcmullen@BROWN.EDU> Reply-To: Quentin McMullen <quentin_mcmullen@BROWN.EDU> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: ODS RTF extra line breaks v9 Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:37:28 -0500 Received: from malibu.cc.uga.edu ([128.192.1.103]) by mc5-f24.hotmail.com with Microsoft

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:44:59 +0000, toby dunn <tobydunn@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

>Quentin, > >You could go in and modify the existing tagset to only put out a specified >number of breaks. > >Toby Dunn >

Thanks much Toby, and thanks for sending the links: http://support.sas.com/rnd/base/topics/odsmarkup/ http://support.sas.com/faq/035/FAQ03565.html

One more (beginner's) question.

Am I correct that the current (9.1.3) ODS RTF file= is NOT produced from a tagset (like ods html), but is instead still being produced by C code?

If the rtf tagset isn't the same thing as what ODS RTF uses, I don't think I'll have to stomach to start mucking with it just for this change in line breaks.

When I tried using the rtf tagset to check, I got nothing but warnings...

192 ods listing close; 193 ods markup type=tagsets.rtf file="c:\junk\me.rtf"; NOTE: Writing MARKUP Body file: c:\junk\me.rtf 194 proc report data=sashelp.class nowindows; 195 column sex name age; 196 run;

WARNING: In Event: populate, Invalid Expression: trigger add_footnotes /breakif $footer_flag EQ 1 WARNING: In Event: row, Invalid Expression: eval $linesleft $linesleft +1 WARNING: In Event: populate, Invalid Expression: trigger add_footnotes /breakif $footer_flag EQ 1 WARNING: In Event: row, Invalid Expression: eval $linesleft $linesleft +1 WARNING: In Event: populate, Invalid Expression: trigger add_footnotes /breakif $footer_flag EQ 1 <etc.>

Seems like ods rtf is destined to lag behing ods html and other more exciting formats....

Thanks again, --Q.