Thank you Geoff and Dave! I use TNG for web publishing and up till now have abandoned using SourceWriter because of the output to gedcom and subsequent formatting of sources in TNG.
Jennifer -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff Rasmussen Sent: Saturday, 16 August 2008 2:56 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] V7 Sources: Nifty formatting lost in gedcom output Dave and I met about this yesterday and have some ideas. First of all, one of our great challenges when developing the SourceWriter was to ensure that no information is lost when sharing via GEDCOM. Because the GEDCOM standard does not have specific fields for the specific SourceWriter fields, Legacy has to "break apart" the nice EE-style citations into the source fields as accepted by GEDCOM, namely title, author, publication, etc. So, while no SourceWriter information is lost, the formatting is not retained when exporting. But...the SourceWriter citations are so nice :) that it'd sure be great if when publishing to the web, such as to TNG, WorldConnect, and other GEDCOM-based publishing cites, that Legacy's SourceWriter citations were preserved. Therefore, we have some ideas about adding a new GEDCOM Export option. When you go to the GEDCOM Export screen, we could add new choice under the "Produce File For" drop-down list called "The Web" or "GEDCOM-based publishing" or something like that. With this option selected, when the GEDCOM is uploaded to the site of choice, the entire citation will read as it is displayed in the Footnote/Endnote Citation of the output preview. This new export option would also set certain privacy defaults and others. If this makes sense to any of you, would this solution be adequate? Thanks, Geoff Rasmussen Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LegacyFamilyTree.com =========================== From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gail Nestor Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 8:41 AM To: Legacy User Group Subject: [LegacyUG] V7 Sources: Nifty formatting lost in gedcom output Do you happen to find yourself in the following three categories? 1) You use Legacy v7 sourcewriter and have converted some/all of your sources 2) You publish to the web using TNG 3) You strongly desire to have these sources formatted according to Evidence Explained If so, please note that the gedcom output from Legacy does not lend itself to formatting the same way the web site as it does in Legacy reports. I was so excited that Legacy came up with sourcewriter and that we could finally format our sources the way that the professional genealogy field does. The sourcewriter tool is easy to use and I think it's going to help many people get over a fear of sourcing. This is all great! However, for those of us who publish to the web, all is lost in the translation to gedcom. This is a huge disappointment to me! We must either find a way to get TNG to re-format the gedcom data or find a way to have Legacy export the sources in the same way they are presented on the screen. I am at a loss on how to proceed. I have converted 3/4 of my census data to the new source format, but on my TNG website, these sources are still a mess. If you would like to respond off-line, I would sure love to have some fellow collaborators on working out this issue. Thanks, Gail Rich Nestor Smyrna, Georgia www.roots2buds.net Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
