Pat, Regarding your second spacing problem...
Automatic word wrapping will usually ignore extra spaces at the location where it is trying to wrap to a new line. The text editor that you are using might even be discarding your extra space, or it might be placing it at the end of the previous line. In any case, if you want to force an indent of a line, you will need to insert an explicit carriage return at the start, such that the line always starts there (and the previous words may or may not fill out a full line). You must consider automatic word wrapping both in your text editor where you are creating the words, and in the output report, which could have a very different line length. If you want extra spaces between two words in the middle of a paragraph, then consider a couple of options. One is to use a tab instead of a space. Another is to use several non-breaking spaces (Shift-spacebar). The non-breaking spaces are like a visible word: they won’t be removed and an automatic line break will not fall in the middle of them. However, the line break can still fall at the end of them, depending on the line length. (At least that’s the case in this Windows Live Mail text editor.) Experiment. Ward From: Pat Hickin Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 11:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] BRAND NEW - NEVER BEFORE ENCOUNTERED PROBLEM!! -- Spacing problem in .pdfs Has anyone ever had this problem with words being run together in a .pdf?? I recently created my umpteenth ancestor report (this one of c 150pp incl source citations). I'll italicize the words Legacy/Adobe has run together: This from the General Notes: " . . . wrote of his grandmotherMcConell that when he saw her she was "an old but even thena pretty blond vivacious lady of many words," most of whichhe 'does not now remember.' He has 'a picture of her incolor taken many years before' the time he saw her, 'butafter she was mature, showing her to have been a beautifulwoman.' 'She inherited from both her parents great vitality and astrong personality. She always was, and so remained duringher entire life, a Beatie, never fully integrating herselfwith the McConnells.'" Here's the spacing in the original wrote of his grandmother McConell that when he saw her she was "an old but even then a pretty blond vivacious lady of many words," most of which he "does not now remember." He has "a picture of her in color taken many years before" the time he saw her, "but after she was mature, showing her to have been a beautiful woman." "She inherited from both her parents great vitality and a strong personality. She always was, and so remained during her entire life, a Beatie, never fully integrating herself with the McConnells." I have a similar problem with Event Notes (but not I think, with other parts of the events. The problem with notes (general, research, and event) seems to continue throughout the report. I didn't see a problem with source citations except with a section that was a quote from the "Text of Source" box. But I admit I didn't check the citations at all carefully!! I've never had a problem like this before, but for the last few weeks, I've had another spacing problem in Legacy. For one reason or another I've wanted to add a space at the beginning of a line in the notes, but when I put my cursor at the beginning of the line and press the space bar, nothing happens. For example, on the line which reads "beautiful woman." (at the end of the first paragraph in the quotation above), If I press the space bar in front of "beautiful," nothing happens. I can type "a" followed by a space in front of "beautiful" and that works fine. Or if the line is totally blank, the spacebar works fine. Should I just re-download and re-install Legacy? If not, what should I do? Perhaps I should just contact "Technical Support."?? Thanks, Pat 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
