Diane and Listers...
I am hoping to hear from someone regarding the odd source output that Diane
original brought up and I expanded upon. I realize that Diane's concern
was not actually with RTF output, but as I tried to recreate her problem
the RTF problem came to my attention as mentioned in previous posts.
I am not crazy about the output Diane reported or the inconsistencies I
discovered about indenting, but they are legible and I can live with them.
However, the RTF output is really a problem for me.
Since no one responded, I reran the test on the Legacy sample database to
see if it was my database and even went back to the March version of Legacy
that is still on my Desktop, and it still outputs that way. While the Text
output is similar to the RTF, there *is* white space on the Text output, so
it is legible. Also the Text mode has a slight "outdent" or "indent" of the
successive lines on most reports (not all).
I recently upgraded to Office 2000 and am now wondering if some Word
setting was changed without my knowledge in the upgrade. I would like to
know if anyone else is seeing this source format on reports output to RTF.
As I mentioned I tested Desc Narr; Ances Book, and Desc Book. All source
text indents under the first character of the text of the endnote.The text
between sources runs together with no white space to make up for a lack of
indentation. There is no period after the source number.
Often I work from HTML output on screen for reviewing reports, so I could
have missed this. I am hoping someone will let me know if they are seeing
the same thing, as if so, I believe it needs to be reported since it is not
output that way on any other type of report output except RTF. If you
aren't seeing it this way, any suggestions are welcome as to what might
be causing this problem as I will be using Word for my Book Reports. Any
help
will be greatly appreciated. Hope this made sense.
Thanks so much. Anna
RTF example....
RTFs come out looking something like this: If your email window isn't
set to be wide enough you won't be able to see this as I typed it. It will
wrap too soon. All text is lined directly under the first character of the
footnote. No white space between endnotes.
1 State of Minnesota, Division of Vital Statistics, "Lorenzo
death certificate, 1918, no 22231, and so on....
everything lined up under state. No period after
the footnote numbers
2 Minnesota, Hennepin County, 1860 U. S. Census, population
Schedule, (Washington National Archive), etc...again everything
lineup up under Minnesota.. No white space between notes
3 New source. No white space. As they continue. They get
harder and harder to read without indent/outdent or at least white
space between the text
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anna B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Question about sources in reports...
> Hi Diane,
>
> I checked to see if I had the same problem and I not only do but also
found very weird inconsistency. I got a different look for different
output choices, listed as follows. The RTF mode is obviously an error as it
lacks a period after the source number, and looks really bad on a print
out. I tested, ancestor book, descendant narrative, and descendant book
and family group. I am running the latest version under Windows XP.
Hopefully someone else will speak up to see what they are finding. Looks
like a
problem that needs reporting to me. Let's see what someone else turns up.
> .....Anna
>
> outputs as.............
>
> Preview mode wraps as you showed...
> 1. Illinois, Shelby County Clerk,.......
> certificate, 1934, #4, pg. 423....
>
> Text Output
> 1. Illinois, Shelby County Clerk,.......
> certificate, 1934, #4, pg. 423....
>
> (text mode on the Family Group Report - the second line wraps one more
> character more tot the left (under the white space).. On the Ancestor
Book Report second line wraps character too far to the right (under the l
in Illinois)
>
> HTML output
> 1. Illinois, Shelby County Clerk,.......
> certificate, 1934, #4, pg. 423....
>
> RTF output (notice NO PERIOD after the source number)
> 1 Illinois, Shelby County Clerk,.......
> certificate, 1934, #4, pg. 423...
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Diane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 7:11 PM
> Subject: [LegacyUG] Question about sources in reports...
>
> > I'm having a problem with the way sources are printing out on reports.
I hope this will make sense...When a source citation wraps to the next line
it extends beyond the source number, rather than indented.
> >
> > As an example:
> >
> > 1. Illinois, Shelby County Clerk,.......
> > certificate, 1934, #4, pg. 423....
> >
> > Shouldn't the word certificate be aligned under Illinois? Or even under
> the number would be okay. But it's to the left of the number. I just
don't like the way this looks.
> >
> > Is anyone else having this problem? I can't see anyway to change this
in options.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Diane
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