It may be true that to many of us, the (Legacy) database is it but it
is also the tool we use to generate/publish reports in a form that is
information to those interested in the data/information but not the
tool. So, the various reports, including the Publishing Center if we
can get it working properly, are important.
At 2005-11-17 06:22 PM, you wrote:
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
>
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