On 2013/11/20 03:14, Paul Richardson wrote: > I'm not keen on generating pdfs or rtfs and then re-editing docs. after all > what's the point of the publishing center if thats what you have to resort > to. I > also work as a software engineer and I'm used to using tools that generate > manuals from basic text and information in the code, so if we can do this for > the software industry I'd have though it could have been done in Legacy as > well.
For the price, what you get with Legacy is cheap. If you want something a bit more professional-looking, the solution is going to cost you money that you could probably better spend on more research. As for your throw-away comment concerning tools within software for generating documentation... I'm also a developer and the general-purpose tools built-in to development software are in my opinion, largely, a piece of crap! There is nothing that couldn't be improved with the judicious use of a good Technical Writer. Same goes for Legacy. If you want something that looks good, you have to do some extra work to achieve it. Legacy is never going to write your books for you. All it can do is lift the basic information out of the database in a semi-presentable form that can be further manipulated. After all, the main raison-d'etre for Legacy is the database and the recording of facts discovered through research. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg (g) 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
