topic PROC DOCUMENT: replaying an LST file and preserving the page breaks. in ODS and Base Reporting

PROC DOCUMENT: replaying an LST file and preserving the page breaks.

RichardP — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 07:12:03 GMT

Hello,

I have a number of LST files which I would like to replay into an RTF document. This works well with one exception, the page breaks in the LST files are not being preserved in the RTF document. I find this strange since if I import the LST file into Word using Insert/Object/Text from file the page breaks are preserved. I am using the following code -

proc document name=import(write);
import textfile="C:\ListingType1_Slope.lst" to ^;
list/ details;
run;

options orientation=landscape ls=max;
ods rtf file='C:\replay_new.rtf';

proc document name=import;
replay;
run;
quit;
ods _all_ close;

Is this correct behaviour? Is there anyway to preserve the page breaks?

any help much appreciated!

regards,

RIchard

Re: PROC DOCUMENT: replaying an LST file and preserving the page breaks.

RichardP — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 14:25:12 GMT

Just a quick addition to the issue above. If I replay to the listing destination the page feeds are also lost. So LST to ODS LISTING results in missing page feeds.

Re: PROC DOCUMENT: replaying an LST file and preserving the page breaks.

vellad — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 06:48:39 GMT

Hey Richard, check out a potential solution I posted for a very similar question:
https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Importing-External-Files-LST-into-an-ODS-Document-preserving/m-p/690646#M24564