The best time to check report options is when a genealogy program is chosen for new data entry. I purchased Legacy 3 in March 2000 because it had a Descendant Narrative "book" report similar to my 1970 typed notes, and upgraded to Deluxe in 2001 because it had PDF output.
Hoping for changes to PDF and also picture options in the next release of Legacy because I still haven't replaced my 1970 notes with an illustrated computer printout. The individual picture files are small but the group pictures and source documents need to be printed up to six inches wide and I'd like to have them with the notes rather than many pages separated in endnotes (5 inches maximum for source images) or a non-Legacy printout as an appendix. Adding pictures one by one to the final draft of a word processor book is okay for a one-time project but unedited PDF output (like a direct printout) needs to be good enough for a book-in-progress to share with relatives. Anyone who reads a family history will ask questions or share memories and then a book needs to be updated. Readers of a family book also need to see charts to understand how individuals are related. A family book edited in one of the earlier genealogy programs with footnotes on the same page took a lot of editing. The original file owner had cited the same source text that was repeated up to a dozen times on the same page. I'll have to check if it is still that way or shows Ibid instead. One copy of each source text was moved to the end of marriage notes and made a readable report without needing footnotes. The only time marriage notes need to be avoided is for transfer to PAF which leaves marriage notes out of book reports. Endnotes at the back of a book or even at the end of a chapter are tedious to check, however footnotes are confusing if the word processor file formatting is lost. Some early family books were published with narrow columns, footnotes at the bottom, and then converted to plain text years later. The footnotes look like mistakes in a computer file until a reader finds the reference number. -- Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carolyn Seaman" > I, too, need full footnotes. Since my notes often contain much more than > simply sources, to have them appear many pages separated from the text > reference to them makes the notes almost unusable. Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
