I understand that you are discussing Family Group Reports (FGR), but I was alluding to my penchant for 'Report --> Book --> Descendant-Narrative' where the 'events' are either positioned as footnotes with the individual, which would be similar to the FGR, or positioned at the end of the book if using endnotes. As I indicated, it was just an observation - and a personal choice, being neither 'wrong' nor critical as has been implied.
I thought this forum was for discussing ways of using Legacy and asking questions - am wrong on this? Bob On Jan 5, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Mary Fowler Leek wrote: > Bob, > > I may be misunderstanding your comment below regarding the data being removed > from the individual but if the Notes event is attached to the individual, it > prints with the individual. If it is attached to the marriage, it reads in > the marriage information. It is the same as placing the information in the > General or Marriage Notes, you just have more control over where it shows up > in the narrative plus you can attach a photo as well as separately source > information to each Notes event. > > A personally created event is used just like the included Named events would > be with an individual or a marriage to attach/ include information for the > family group. > > Mary > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: RUNION ROBERT > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 3:41 AM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Family Group Report with Editable Text and Pictures > > I experimented with Mary's suggestion and with an event 'Notes', you can move > the data to any spot in the End notes. However, it sort of loses appeal to me > when the data is not with the individual in a book narrative. If you have a > 500 page book, the individual note (now an event) is listed on page 385 > (example only) and seems to remove the 'history' from the immediate > individual. Guess it is all in one's preference, but it is an interesting > concept. - especially the photo addition possibility. > > Bob > > On Jan 4, 2010, at 9:31 PM, Syble Glasscock wrote: > >> Thanks so much, really looks neat. >> Syble >> >> --- On Sun, 1/3/10, Mary Fowler Leek <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> From: Mary Fowler Leek <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Family Group Report with Editable Text and Pictures >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 7:34 PM >> >> Cathy, >> >> In order to organize your report with the notes at the beginning, just >> create a new 'event' titled Notes and copy and paste your hard coded notes >> into the event titled Notes. After that is done and you're sure you have the >> notes section all copied, then delete the identical information from the >> section of hard coded notes. This way, you can shift this new event all >> around among the events so it will read and print as and where you'd like it >> to within the report. With an event, you can also add in (attach) a photo. >> While the photos usually are quite small (maybe someday we'll be allowed to >> size them as we'd like) at least they add some interest to the events. >> >> If you'd like to see a report that I can produce using an event titled >> notes, as well as some of the original named events, rather than using the >> hard coded Notes, I'll create a short one in a pdf file, attach to an email >> and send to you so you can see how I've used an event titled 'notes' to >> write up some of my family history. This report can now be created in a >> second or two and I can shift and edit to my hearts content, should I come >> across more information or photo's I'd like to add to this family's history. >> >> Mary >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Cathy Vallevieni" <[email protected]> >> >> >> >> William & Charles: >> >> Thank you for your response to my posting. >> >> I have Adobe Acrobat Professional but it will not change the Legacy >> PDF into OCR because the file contains the pictures I want to >> retain. It will only change an all text file into OCR. >> >> I have Microsoft Word but .rtf loses the event pictures and .txt >> loses all pictures + formatting. >> >> The reasoning for moving the Notes to the top is I've used that >> section to write a Family Biography (a story-type summary of the full >> history of the husband and wife and their life together with family >> stories and remembrances and descriptions of the personalities of the >> people--kinda like you would seen in a biography book). I'd like the >> flow to be the overall summary of the people followed by the "facts >> and events" for the husband followed by the "facts and events" for >> the wife followed by the "facts and events" for the marriage. A >> reader can just read the overall summary or can get into more detail >> by reading the facts with the detail of the Census', occupation (some >> with pictures like the store they owned or an ad they ran), >> residences with pictures of the house they lived in, etc. >> >> I'm guessing what I want to do can't be done but thought I'd ask. >> >> I'm preparing for a family reunion and have books with sections for >> each marriage/family and would like the sections to begin with this >> report followed by the photos and all documents for the couple. >> >> Cathy Vallevieni >> Orange County, CA >> >> At 03:12 AM 1/3/2010, you wrote: >> >Cathy: >> > >> >I was going to mention PDF, but you said you can't change it to >> >OCR. Adobe Acrobat (not the PDF Reader) has OCR capabilities within >> >the program, but usually only for images that contain text. Sending >> >a Legacy report to PDF should be all text anyway so no OCR needed >> >for that and should retain all fonts. I don't know about PDF >> >knockoff programs. I know Acrobat is a bit pricey though. >> > >> >The only other alternative is to use a word processor. If you don't >> >have one, you can always download OpenOffice.org which is free and a >> >full suite of office programs. Then to retain any special fonts and >> >formatting, you can export it to PDF. >> > >> >I've found one of the best programs to have for genealogy is the >> >full version of Acrobat because you can scan everything into PDFs >> >and attach them to sources in Legacy. >> > >> >I don't really understand the reasoning for moving the notes section >> >to the top. You mention it contains graphics. Are these source >> >graphics? Are the notes Footnotes/Endnotes? Are you trying to make >> >the report accessible by others so they can make their own changes? >> > >> >Bill Boswell >> > >> > >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: Cathy Vallevieni [mailto:[email protected]] >> >Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 4:31 AM >> >To: [email protected] >> >Subject: [LegacyUG] Family Group Report with Editable Text and Pictures >> > >> >Is there a way to create a Family Group Report that retains the >> >formatting and the individual & event pictures but has the ability to >> >move the Notes to the beginning of the report? >> > >> >I tried .txt but that loses the pictures and the bold headlines and >> >text (I know I can manually add the photos and change each headline >> >and other text to bold but that's very time consuming for how many >> >families I have). >> > >> >I tried .pdf but it can't be changed to OCR which is required for me >> >to move the Notes section to the beginning of the report (I assume >> >because there's pictures which are graphics?). >> > >> >I tried .html but I can't move the Notes section. >> > >> >If I copy it to the clipboard, it's a graphic of the report and I >> >can't move the Notes section. >> > >> >I tried sending the Descendant and Descendant Narrative reports to >> >.rtf but they do not contain the event pictures. >> > >> >If there's no way to do it, I'll use the Descendant Narrative in .rtf >> >because it's the least changes but it doesn't look as nice as the >> >Family Group Report. >> > >> >Thanks. >> > >> >Cathy Vallevieni >> >Orange County, CA >> > >> >Legacy User Group guidelines: >> > >> > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >> > >> >Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >> > >> > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> > >> >Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >> > >> > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> > >> >Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >> > >> >To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp >> >> >> >> >> Legacy User Group guidelines: >> >> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >> >> Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >> >> To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Legacy User Group guidelines: >> >> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >> >> Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >> >> To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Legacy User Group guidelines: >> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >> Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >> To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
