Ward, see below for what I wrote to Millennia about last year, and the response from Geoff. I didn't receive any other communication. I unsubscribed from the email list for several months, so probably missed your posts. I have only a few sources done with Source Writer and I think I will redo them without.
Jennifer ****************************** Jennifer, Dave had worked on this for citations being published to the web. I'll try to find out from him what the status is. Sincerely, Geoff Legacy Family Tree Become a Legacy expert by viewing our tutorial videos. Just visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Videos.asp. ________________________________________ From: "Jennifer Crockett" <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:47:42 -0700 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Making the source writer sources GEDCOM compliant I can't find the email from Geoff some time after Source Writer became available that said the team was working on making the sources thus created export to GEDCOM properly. I haven't heard anything since, and would like to know if this has been forgotten or abandoned as "Too Hard". My main avenue of publishing my Legacy files is on the Internet using TNG (The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding) software. I long ago stopped using the Source Writer, more's the pity, because of the way sources appeared in a GEDCOM and thus transferred to my website http://colston-crockett.com Jennifer ****************************** -----Original Message----- From: Ward Walker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 10 February 2010 7:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source sritier an gedcoms Jennifer, I am curious about when/where you heard that 'Legacy folk were going to see if they could get source writer sources gedcom compliant'. We have had discussions on this list about the problem. There is my long-winded post on June 25 (or 26?) entitled 'Incomplete Export of Source Details', and a thread with no title on July 2. Then a rehash on August 23-25 entitled 'combining/replacing sources' and 'changed to Gedcom history/future' where the ownership of GEDCOM was discussed. Someone said 'don't hold your breath' regarding the likelihood of changes to the standard. The main problem is that the Evidence Explained style produced by SourceWriter templates intersperses fields from the master and detail source. The GEDCOM standard can only deal with a basic source where all the detail fields are concatenated together into one field. Also, in a Legacy export, certain generated titles such as "p." for a page number are missing. This last problem might be fixable in Legacy, but it would be nice to know whether the folks at Millennia (and other software providers) are at all campaigning for enhancements to the standard. Ward ----- Original Message ----- From: Jennifer Crockett To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 9:02 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Source sritier an gedcoms Is there any way around this problem? It has been there a long time and I remember Legacy folk were going to see if they could get source writer sources gedcom compliant – I guess it was too hard. There must be Legacy users out there who also publish on a TNG site. What looks wonderful as the output for Legacy reports looks like gobbledegook once it has gone through gedcom. Below is an example – first one Legacy, second one what ends up on my site if I use the Source Writer. NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, "Historical Index," database, NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages (http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au), 107799/1976. NSW Registry of Birth, Deaths and Marriages online database, NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, ((http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au)), ), 107799/1976.. 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
