Well said, John. I agree with you on all points. On 11/16/05, John R. Bayle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gail wrote: > > > In citing my sources, I would like to be able to include the web site > > address as part of the "master source" in Legacy, and to include the > > accessed date as part of the "citation detail." With Legacy, I cannot do > > this and have it formatted as Mills' example above (combined within the > > parentheses). > > > > I recently brought this up on the APG list and Ms. Mills herself responded > > to my post: "Sounds like you need to lobby your software developer to give > > you more flexibility!" > > I completely agree that E. S. Mills is The Authority on citing sources. > I have her book and it is an impressive little thing. It is also IMO a bit > "over the top". She has all these different formats for all these different > sources and it just seems to me to be a bit TOO involved. Now Legacy > may not have the flexibility of TMG, but then folks complain about TMG > being ugly, hard to learn and slow. Maybe there's a trade off here, and > if you throw all the flexibility of TMG into Legacy 7, you wind up with > an Ugly and/or Slower Legacy? Maybe it takes so much developer time > that other things don't get in? I'd much rather see Legacy 7 make > descendant charts than see it handle sources in reports better. > > Also at a certain level the need for this escapes me. I agree it may > be desireable, but the data are captured by the Legacy Database aren't > they? It's just a matter of how it's formatted on output, Footnote vs. > Endnote and what fields go into the footnote. Why not just stick > the info you want into the comments field and check the box that > says include comments in source citation? Yup it's tedious, but it > can be done can't it? > > Besides it seems to me that perhaps Pro Genealogists are a bit > behind the technology curve here? They like reports cuz that's > what they deal with because that's what's been done in the past. > But if the data's all in a database, then just get the database and > who needs the report? > jr > > 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 > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
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