Re: [LegacyUG] reports/books

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I'm very impressed with your book.  You say you "did a report from Legacy," but don't indicate if you used a Descendant Narrative, the Publishing Center, or something else.  Your flow of events is very smooth and well written - this is something I have struggled with when entering events in the hope of creating a good narrative (I use [Notes] [Sources] always to override the standard wording). I recently had another problem when creating a descendant narrative for a proposed article.  I saved it as an .rtf, then added additional narrative with sources in Word.  However, I could never get the font of the footnote numerals both in the body copy and in the footnote to match what Legacy generates. Did you have that problem converting Legacy to Open Office? Marianne -----Original Message----- From: Mary Figgins Sent: Jul 30, 2010 8:26 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] reports/books I just did a family history for a family reunion. I put it on Lulu.com for family members to purchase.  To make the book, I did a report from Legacy and then edited in OpenOffice (chosen because Lulu prefers a pdf and accepted Oo's version better than Word's).  By doing this I was able to put in information or explanations, leave out information and generally do it closer to the way I wanted.   If you want to see what I ended up with you can go to Lulu.com and search for Gwinner or Dunhaupt.  Then click on the title to go to the book's page.  Under the cover is the option to view preview. Mary Beth Figgins From: Kathy Meyer <kmeyer2...@gmail.com> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Tue, July 27, 2010 2:19:32 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] reports/books Has anyone used Legacy to create a book?  I have put this project off for quite awhile, not wanting to duplicate my efforts due to an insufficient program.  I need to create some sort of book for about 5 different lines for different people and I want to include all the usual information - pedigree, timeline, photographs, documents and more personal notes and details about the individuals, families & the areas & lives they lived.  I don't know if I can use Legacy for the entire project, or if I should use it partially and paste pages into another program or if I should import Legacy data somewhere else for this type of project.  I have a lot of pictures that I wouldn't necessarily import into Legacy but might use in a book; then again, maybe I should?  I might have dozens or more pictures of a particular individual or family that would be nice in a scrapbook/album type format. Thank you for your comments & suggestions, Kathy -- Kathy Meyer "To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done." --Richard G. Scott, "Finding the Way Back," Ensign, May 1990, 74 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein Legacy User Group guidelines:   http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:   http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009:   http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009:    http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009:    http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp