Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond
by Lauren E. Haworth, Cynthia L. Zender, Michele M. Burlew
Controlling Page Breaks
When your RTF output produces a number of tables, ODS tries to insert page breaks appropriately. By default, it puts a page break between procedures and between BY groups. This can result in RTF files with a few tables spanning many pages with a lot of white space.
For example, if you analyze the data set CLIPS with a PROC MEANS step followed by a PROC TABULATE step, you can end up with the results shown in Figure 4.15. The entire first page is devoted to the small table produced by the PROC MEANS step. The entire second page is devoted to the first BY group from the TABULATE procedure. These two pages are followed by four more pages, each displaying a single BY group from the PROC TABULATE step.
In HTML output, each ...
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