Ron,
Sorry for the late reply. I was away.
The short answer is no. I had not checked that checkbox option, so the
export broke lines in mid-word, as expected. For most types of GEDCOM
records, the import properly reconstructed those broken words. For the
'PAGE' record type, the import improperly inserted a space.
Thanks for pointing this out, though. I imagine that there is no harm in
choosing the 'old style' export, which works around the import bug (in case
other software products have the same bug). I wonder why it is old style,
and why it is not the default? The difference in file size is trivial.
Ward
----- Original Message -----
From: "ronald ferguson" <ronfe...@msn.com>
To: <legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:08 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG]
Ward,
Are you saying that the export option to "Break between words (old style)"
doesn't work?
Ron Ferguson
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From: wnkwal...@rogers.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:46:13 -0400
The extra space appears to be a bug on the import, not on the export. When
a
GEDCOM 'PAGE' record is long enough to have a continuation record, Legacy
is
not concatenating the 2 lines properly, introducing a space. Here are the
GEDCOM lines corresponding to my previous example, where the word 'family'
became 'fami ly' in the imported source detail.
3 PAGE M432, roll M432_699, Wayne Twp, p. 145, dwelling 2091, fami
4 CONC ly 2194, Margaret Jones age 8, accessed 2 Aug 2008
Other concatenations are working correctly, such as for the 'NOTE' field.
Ward
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ward Walker"
To:
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]
Ross,
This is what I was getting at in my (admittedly long-winded) posts titled
"Incomplete Export of Source Details" last week. The source detail info
from the first tab all gets strung together into one field in the GEDCOM.
Upon re-import, Legacy probably has no choice but to create a Basic style
source from it. The effect is that some citations will read quite
differently, as I showed in my example.
As for the extra spaces, I didn't look closely at the pattern, but I do
recall noticing some unwanted spaces at the time. In fact, my example
shows the word "family" broken in two.
Ward
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ross Chapman"
To:
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 7:46 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG]
I normally do transfer via the backup... this time the GeDCom file was
already created for an upload to my web page so decided to use it
instead. I
have already replaced the file with a backup from my pc so there is no
issue
there. However it also shows me that the data I have passed on to family
members may have issues as they don't use Legacy but PAF and FTM.
Ross P. Allan Chapman
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ross.chap...@rogers.com
Visit my genealogy web page at http://rossallanchapman.tribalpages.com
(major work in progress)
-----Original Message-----
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On
Behalf
Of ronald ferguson
Sent: July-02-09 2:19 AM
To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG]
Ross,
It may be that if you change the setting for Break notes between Words
may
help (Customise), but I do not know.
However, why are you using a GEDCOM? I do similar, but because I have a
non-Legacy program on my lap-top. If I was using Legacy then I would
just
transfer my .fdb file - or the zip back-up if I wanted the settings.
Ron Ferguson
________________________________
From: ross.chap...@rogers.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: [LegacyUG]
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:37:11 -0400
I exported a copy of my database into a GEDCom file for
transfer to my notebook and all the source citations were switched over
to
the
Basic format. When it did that is started placing spaces in some of my
data
i.e. splits in file numbers and the like. Any of you out there seen
this
or
know of this issue?
Ross P. Allan Chapman
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