I don't know of an alternative, and I'm a little surprised that nobody
reacted like you when I brought it up before.
If the GEDCOM transfer is just for information purposes and not for
publishing, then all the information is there (barring the isolated bug that
Connie mentioned).
If you really need to transfer sources via GEDCOM and have the citations
print in exactly the same word order in the target system as they did in the
source system, then ESM-style sources won't do.
Ward
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chick Lewis" <cglewi...@gmail.com>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] combining/replacing sources
OK, I'm confused. I realize the GEDCOM standard is old, but it is
still the only method available for transferring data between
programs. If the new SourceWriter data and ESM's templates do not
transfer well by gedcom, what is the alternative? Should we stop using
SW until a new gedcom standard is developed? That may never happen
because as far as I know, LDS has no plans to update the gedcom.
Chick Lewis
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Ward Walker<wnkwal...@rogers.com> wrote:
Jeff,
The thread addresses that as well. In fact, the thread started with an
issue
with Basic style sources. In short, if you have a mix of SourceWriter and
Basic style sources, and if you place text in the Source Detail field of
some Basic sources, and if you sometimes want that text in your citation
and
sometimes not, then there is a problem. (I ended up removing text from
that
field if it was only there as a comment and not to be in the citation.) I
see this as a Legacy oversight and not a GEDCOM issue. Leaving the box
"Override Source options - include all source information" UNchecked
should
only apply to Basic sources, not to SW sources (which always need the
source
details).
Back to your original question about SW sources, Connie's reply explains
it
quite well. I expect that a more elaborate GEDCOM file standard is
required,
in order to deal with EE style citations.
Ward
----- Original Message ----- From: "jeffma...@orthohelp.com"
<jeffma...@orthohelp.com>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 7:37 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] combining/replacing sources
Thanks Ward. I will look up the thread.
How about the old style sources? Do they export correctly to other
programs and via gedcom?
Jeff
Ward Walker wrote:
No, they will not transfer correctly, even back into Legacy. Yes,
GEDCOM has difficulty.
I mentioned this on-list only 8 days ago. For details, see my post in
the archive on 25 June, titled 'Incomplete Export of Source Details'.
Some types of sources will survive this process better than others,
depending on how much the master and detail fields are interspersed.
Ward
----- Original Message -----
From: "jeffma...@orthohelp.com" <jeffma...@orthohelp.com>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] combining/replacing sources
A question about the sources produced by the new source writer: will
they transfer correctly in a gedcom to another genealogy program? In
other words, does gedcom have any difficulty with the new style of
sources compared the to the older style?
Thanks. Jeff
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