Ward, I just responded to Paula on Subsequent Citation Details and yes, I should have changed to a new tread.
I have been using the Basic Source templates and not the SourceWriter. This is my first serious attempt in becoming familiar with Legacy, but the SourceWriter is similar to that used in FTM. Both yield a bloated foot/endnote. I have one database that yields 35 pages of endnotes with nearly all being one line. The templet approach would considerable considerably more pages and be harder to follow for the less experienced. I am at a decision point with FamilyTreeMaker. Either I change programs, and Legacy looks to be the best option, or build a state-of-the-art XP machine and stay with v16 of FTM. FTM v16 is not stable in Vista and researchers with Win7 say forget it. Latter version of FTM are similar to RootsMagic and designed around marketing, not ease of use. So much for the soap box. Would you point me to the 2009 archives and I will see if I can master the master and detail files. Thanks for your help, Leonard On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:56:05 -0500 "Ward Walker" <[email protected]> writes: > Leonard, > > We had a lot of discussion about Subsequent Citations a while back. > I think March of 2009 might be the most recent. I don't know if anything has > changed in Legacy. I know I logged some requests. > > Think of a template-driven (i.e., SourceWriter) citation as > consisting of 4 > groupings of fields: > - master fields that always appear > - master fields that disappear on subsequent citations > - detail fields that always appear > - detail fields that disappear on subsequent citations > > The same fields appear, or not, on each subsequent citation of a > given master source. If you understand which ones do so, for a particular > SourceWriter template, then you can fudge your data accordingly. By > 'fudge', I mean sometimes placing a text value in a different field than the > one suggested by the template. > > Does this help you to engineer your detail citations such that you > see the desired different detail fields in your footnotes? > > Ward > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Paula Ryburn > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 1:51 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.5 and source citation import? > > > Leonard, I may be off-base here, but when I add the person's name in > either > the Text or Comment field on the Source DETAIL and click the check > box to > include it, then it does print in the citation. For example, I was > using > the Ill. Death Index for a couple... same source master, same date > accessed, > etc., but each had their own name in the "item" > field-----------actually, I > realize that that is what makes them different. I am including the > cert# in > the Comment field, though, and checking the box to include that. > So, maybe I am no help. I don't do footnotes, just endnotes. > (and maybe our subject has changed?) > > --Paula in Texas > > ------------------------- > > From: gambol <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Mon, February 13, 2012 6:51:07 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.5 and source citation import? > >  > Ward, Yes this is similar. Your comments led me to the Options > > Customize > > Source tab > Source Detail Defaults. I had the first three boxes > checked > and then discovered the Reset buttons cycle through each source and > source > text and list them as one line in the reports. This is exactly > what I was > looking for, it's a shave the program does not do this as default. > > My last huddle is to get Legacy to ignore its Subsequent Citations > format as > there are many times when a census is used as source for a persons' > name, > approximate birth year and birth state. The individual's name > should > appear under Legacy's Name Event, and the year, state would appear > under the > Birth Event. What is desirable is to have two footnotes with the > same source > info; one having the name as detail and the second having year, > state as > detail. > > Are you aware of an option that allows each footnote to appear with > its own > text? The truncation as it appears in the Subsequent Citations could > happen > any where in the footnote/endnote printout and the second, etc, > usage could > be for another person. This leads to confusion on the reader's > part. > > Leonard > > > > 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 > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) > and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > ____________________________________________________________ Date Smarter, Not Harder eHarmony - Join Now. 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