Dave, Jay, Kurt, et al, Dave is correct about the usual source of the problem. However, I think in Jay's case, the Ged's were long ago assimilated or were included in contributions that he received.
I have thought about this problem and do not see an easy way to fix it. ...So often the spaces come in the middle of word or before a punctuation mark. I would love to be corrected... john. At 05:03 PM 12/12/2013, Dave Naylor wrote: >On 12 Dec 2013 Jay 1FamilyTree wrote: > > > My 'general' notes are filled with these 'spacation' errors as you call > > them. Do you have any idea on a good way to resolve them? > >If you imported a gedcom and got spaces in the middle of words then >this is *not* a bug. It's caused by using an incorrect import >option. > >The original gedcom design for breaking up long notes into short >lines was to break them at a space. On import these lines were >rejoined and a space was added between them. However this resulted >in multiple spaces being reduced to only one upon import because the >quantity of spaces was unknown and so was assumed to be just one. > >The gedcom design was later changed so that long notes were broken in >the middle of words. On import these lines are rejoined and no >spaces are added. This is the current standard. > >Because some older gedcoms may contain notes with lines broken at >spaces, Legacy has an option to use either method. > >If you ended up with spaces being inserted in the middle of words >then your gedcom was imported using the old standard. To correct >these re-import the data using the "Note Options" for "Lines are >broken in the middle of words". > >Hope this helps. > >Cheers! -- Dave N. >-- > David Naylor, Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada. >--- 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/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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
