Expecting Legacy's Notes - or Source Details - to automagically transform a myriad of formatted text from web pages or other documents that it doesn't know about, is asking a bit much. This is my experience / work practice - you may find something useful for you: Legacy's Notes convert text to a standard font, and it is possible to prepare for that by pasting your "captured" text into another application (program), then paste it into the note. I haven't used the suggested "clipboard extenders" recommended by Cathy Pinner, but that may be useful. I use a text editor (TextPad7, rather than Microsoft's free Notepad; but the Microsoft free Wordpad may be useful - not tried). These will convert the fonts in your source document or web page to something uniform, and you can "prepare" the text there before copy/paste into Legacy's Notes. While I accept the standard configuration for fonts etc that Legacy uses, it may be possible to configure it more suitably for the origin of the text that you most commonly use.
Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jenny M Benson Sent: Wednesday, 30 November 2016 5:44 AM To: Legacy User Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Formatting issue in Source Detail On 26-Nov-16 06:24 PM, Gene Wheeler wrote: > > Thanks for your reply! I copy and paste, then delete extraneous spaces. > If the original text is "linear"; i.e. not in a column, I will place > Returns where appropriate to make it columnar. If the original is > already columnar, I copy and paste, then delete the extraneous spaces. > However, in the latter case, I have NOT been adding any Returns. > Perhaps that's what I should do. For instance, the text found in > Findagrave for birth, death, burial info is already columnar. This is > primarily where I notice the "run together" that I have experienced. I > will experiment with adding Returns and see if that fixes my problem. I just tried copying a a columnar section from FindAGrave and pasting into a Basic Source, both in the Source Detail field and the Detail Text. I didn't get the lines of the pasted text running together at all, but "Cit Date 13 April 2008" ran on after the last line of the text in the Source Detail field and the first line of the pasted text in Text was run together with the Citation Date. I couldn't find a way to prevent that happening. -- Jenny M Benson -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
