Thanks Cathy, but I opened the Help file and read what is there on the Publishing Center. I do not see anywhere addressed the functional differences between a descendant book generated there or from the Descendant Book Report tab. It would be nice if that were explained somewhere, in my opinion.
You directions for changing the options for printing text/comments of the source detail worked perfectly; thank you. Barton -----Original Message----- From: Cathy Pinner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 10:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] line breaks in event detail Hi Barton, Sorry, I thought since you were talking about soft breaks, you'd know how to do the search and replace in Word. Testing this morning, Legacy automatically changed soft breaks into hard breaks. The line length is preserved unless the line length is beyond the width of your report page with your chosen font. How it looks on the screen in the General Notes or Event Notes depends on the size of the window but there will be a new line where those breaks were but there may be others as well if the original was longer than the width of display or report page. Access is the database part of Microsoft Office. Legacy data is stored in an Access database. Placing material with soft breaks directly into Access results in the soft break being replaced with a hard break. You say that the Report options are the same for the Publishing Centre choosing Descendant Report and just a Descendant Report then go on to detail differences. The Publishing Centre has its own place for choosing some options like Index and Sources rather than using the particular report options. Differences in Source choices and Index sources are probably what is accounting for the different page count. Do read the Help file on the Publication Centre. Whether or not Source Detail prints is controlled from where you added the Source itself. Note that the Source Detail is made up of different parts. There's the Source Detail itself on the front tab, then Source Detail Text and Source Detail Comments on the next tab, then Media, then Repository. The easy way to see what will print is to open the Assigned Sources screen and on the Output tab at the bottom choose Show Source using Print options then highlight a source in the list to see how it will be in a report. When you choose to edit the Source Detail, you'll find a checkbox for whether to include the citation at all and then under the Source Detail Text and Source Comment other checkboxes whether or not to include these elements. In addition, with a Basic Style source, you can choose whether or not to include the Source Detail. You can reset these for the entire file by going to Options - Customise - 7.3, choosing the options you want and clicking Apply. Note that some only apply to Basic Style Sources. With a Basic Style Source you can choose whether to include the Source Detail, Source Detail Text and/or Source Comment. With a Source Writer Source you can only choose whether or not to include the Source Detail Text and/or the Source Comment. The Source Detail is automatic once you've chosen to include the citation. Cathy > Barton Lewis <mailto:[email protected]> > Monday, 22 June 2015 5:12 AM > > This did not fix it. It is still breaking differently than what is in > the document. I don’t know what you mean by “Access database.†> This is just a Word document in my C drive. My assumption is that > breaks cannot be preserved and that Legacy wraps according to its own > limitations/specifications. > > I wanted to see how it looked in a Descendant Report and have several > questions about that. First, when I click on “Publishing Center†> and choose “Descendant Book Report†I get a 66 page document for > this particular ancestor. When I choose “Descendant Book Report†> I get an > 88 page document. I am not changing any settings. What are the > functional differences between these 2 reports? Also, for the first > report, no source detail prints with the source. For the second > report, source detail is showing for certain sources (e.g. censuses) > but not for the will of my ancestor which I added as an Event. I find > no option in the report for including or not including source detail. > I am sure it is somewhere – can you tell me where? > > Thanks, > > Barton > > *From:*Cathy Pinner [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Saturday, June 20, 2015 11:12 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] line breaks in event detail > > Use hard line breaks/paragraphs > Do a search and replace in your Word document. > > I think this is a limitation of the Access database where the data is > stored. > > Barton Lewis wrote: > > > > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com > 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 > > > > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com > 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 > Barton Lewis <mailto:[email protected]> > Sunday, 21 June 2015 9:45 AM > > I transcribed the will of my ancestor and put soft returns at the end > of lines to preserve exactly how the will was written. When I paste > the text into the detail for the Event (Will), it is breaking the > lines before they end in many cases. This, despite the fact that the > lines are already shortened from the regular margins of a Word > document due to my soft line breaks. How can I get Legacy not to do > this and preserve the line breaks as they occur in the will? > > Thanks, > > Barton > > > > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com > 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 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
