Thank you Cynthia. I do think the history is interesting. I started using SAS before there was ODS (I believe version 6.2 or something, back in 1992 on unix) and remember being excited when I could even get RTF output and when I first used PROC MIXED with ods tables and was able to take charge of my output. I would have disagreed with the original developers but I think it is because I am always trying to fit a lot of output in a small space and due to wanting to always save toner and resources back when we used to print things. I too like the journal styles and really am glad they now have one with arial font. If I was master of the world it would be bodytitle, no new page, a journal or pearl style. In case anyone googles this, I also like using macro variables to make pretend titles, this is especially nice for pdf, but I probably could also use it with RTF as well. ods pdf file="&folder\solutions.pdf" startpage=no style=pearl;
ods escapechar='^';
*Setting up the title macro variable;
%let liketitle=^S={font=('Arial',11pt,bold) just=center};
ods text= "&liketitle Problem 2 Data Sample ^n ^n"; /*the ^n leaves some black space*/
proc print data=sashelp.cars;
run;
ods pdf close;
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