Date:         Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:13:53 -0500
Reply-To:     "Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org>" <nospam@HOWLES.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org>" <nospam@HOWLES.COM>
Subject:      Re: Controlling line size and page size procedure output

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:34:00 -0800, John Faustini
<Faustini.John@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV> wrote:

>I often save listing output from SAS PROCs by cutting and pasting from
>the Output Window to a Word document.  (I know this is low-tech, but I
>just want to save the output in a readable and reasonably compact form
>with a minimum of effort.)  This usually works OK except when I have
>wide output, which SAS wraps within each page, making the output hard to
>read.  For some reason, SAS seems to ignore the linesize and pagesize
>options I set.  For example, when I specify the following options
>(designed to fit on a landscape page using SAS Monospace 8-point font)
>options nocenter nonumber nodate;
>options pagesize=42 linesize=135 orientation=landscape
>        topmargin=0.75 bottommargin=0.75 leftmargin=0.75 rightmargin=
>0.75
>        ;
>SAS wraps (for PROC output) or cuts off (titles, etc.) output at a width
>of 115 characters and breaks pages after only 38 lines of output.  Why
>does SAS ignore (or override) my options settings?  Is there some other
>way to control the line size and page length of SAS PROC output sent to
>the Output Window, or something I'm missing?
>
>Thanks,
>John

Your problem is what one might call "semi-documented". For example, about
the LEFTMARGIN option, the book says "Changing the value of this option may
result in changes to the value of the LINESIZE= system option."

Switch the order of the options in your code so that PAGESIZE and LINESIZE
are declared *after* TOPMARGIN etc. I think you will get what you want.

For your purposes, you are probably better off not declaring the four
___MARGIN options at all.