On 2014/01/02 02:29, Wendy Howard wrote: > I've been stumbling around editing a descendants' chart report that was > generated at the standard 80-characters-per-line setting that has been set on > my Legacy (probably forever!), which has always been okay before - until I > came to a branch of the family tree that has at least 13 generations and that > was too tight a squeeze. Now that I'm almost finished editing that file to > what I want, I've learned I could have saved myself a lot of work by setting > that to a higher number - 300 takes care of everything that was bugging me. > Oh well, I'm not going to forget this lesson in a hurry (I hope!). :-)
The 80 characters per line thing is a real hangover from the early days of matrix printers, and when there was only one font, a 10 characters per inch mono-spaced version of Courier! Work it out. 80 characters per line at 10 characters per inch gives 8 inches of text. Just enough to fit on a US-standard page. -- 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
