"A reasonably finished product" .. ok, that's a whole different story. I suspect most of us are not dealing with finished products but our ever-changing databases. I think wikis for genealogy are the best thing since sliced bread. They solve all the publishing problems being discussed here and they can be finished or not finished at any point in time. ----- JL JLiki - creating your own genealogy wiki http://www.jgen.ws/jliki.html
On 5/17/2010 2:11 PM, Connie Sheets wrote: > JL asked: > >> Doesn't 'inserting images, etc' get a >> little tiresome every time you >> make a change to your database and have to regenerate a >> report? > > Nope, because I wouldn't be doing this every time I make a change to my > database. I would be doing this only when I had a reasonably finished > product in Legacy that I wanted to share with others in the form of a book, > article, or other narrative. > > While Legacy offers a variety of good report formats, and while some people > may be satisfied with merely generating those canned reports, there are > situations when I want to be able to do more than that. At the same time, I > don't want to write a book or article or whatever completely from scratch in > Word. So using the best features of both Legacy and Word, with as little > editing as possible, is one way some of us choose to use Legacy. > > You can push "wikis" all you want, but I have little to no use for them. > > Connie > > > > > > > > > > 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
