Bryan, I should have said, that where I am seeing the results of my formatting attempts is on a descendant narrative report .pdf. What I am attempting to format is a "sic." Thus I have a Salford Twp., which is frequently referred to -- in wills etc.-- as Sulford Twp. So I sometimes try to enter Sulford [*sic.*] Twp. or perhaps Sulford [*sic.*,* i.e.*, Salford] Twp. I'm never trying to italicize the location itself.
Pat On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Brian/Support <br...@legacyfamilytree.com> wrote: > The Event/Fact, Description, Date and Place fields are not WYSIWYG (What > You See Is What You Get) fields. When you use the CTRL-key to format > those fields, including the place, you should see a string of funny > characters before and after the text. Those strings of characters are > the format codes I mentioned. They tell the reports to turn on the > attribute then turn it off again. You only see the text with the format > applied in reports. Not sure where you saw the format applied, I did not > see it on the event edit screen nor on the individual edit screen. > > Remember also my warning about the effect of using those format codes in > place names. New York, New York, New York, United States is NOT the same > location as that location with those format codes surrounding the name. > Unless you are using the same set of format codes on every location you > will have multiple copies of the location when you have places with and > without format codes added or with different combinations of codes like > underline plus Italic and underline only. > > In family view all the format codes are ignored in the display of the > vital events. In Descendant View the place names were displayed only > with the format codes not as WYSIWYG. In Chronology View a place name > with underline added caused every following line to be underlined in the > report style (with the option to have places displayed in reverse order > the "format on" code at the start of the place name is not followed by a > format off code because that is at the beginning of the place name after > the country name which precedes the city in that option. It would be > interesting to see how the display would look with all locations having > formats applied, the format off codes after each country would turn off > the underline then it would turn back on with the city name. > > Have I convinced you yet that trying to put format on Event Names, > Descriptions, Dates and Places is not a good idea? > > Brian > Customer Support > Millennia Corporation > br...@legacyfamilytree.com > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > > > On 23 Sep 2014 6:40 AM, Pat Hickin wrote: > > Brian, > > > > Thanks so much for your detailed reply. However, you wrote, > > "Although you cannot use the format buttons to set the format in the > > Event for the Event Name, Description, Dates or Places you can select > > the text and use CTRL-i to set italics, CTRL-b for bold, CTRL-u for > > underline and CTRL-s for superscript formats." > > > > That works find in the birth and death fields, but has no effect in the > > event location field. In one case I tried both a CTRL-u and a CTRL-i and > > it underlined the word but did not italicize it. > > > > Pat > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
