ENDNOTES and/or FOOTNOTES
If I am wrong with the following - please someone tell me. And I hope I am.
Barbara, I don't think that Legacy has any capability what-so-ever to
create endnotes or footnotes. All Legacy seems to do is put a
superscript number in the text that points to nothing and at the end
there is a numbered list of the sources.
Right now - I must export from Legacy into Brother's Keeper and then
from Brother's Keeper to MSWord "Or" create each and every endnote /
footnote in Word. Brother's Keeper choice of "endnotes with no
duplicates" - does not replace with ibid, etc., they all just share the
same superscript number. You also have the choice in BK to divide into
chapters with endnotes with each chapter. All is easily sent to Word or
Word Perfect or any word processor. Of course, they update
automatically, throughout the report, as you delete or add footnotes.
There are so many great features in Legacy, but for someone who has
published and is going to publish this is quandary. I make many reports
a week.
Again - Legacy has so much to offer, perhaps a Hidden Treasure type of
program, for many features are stealthy <G>
Anna
Barbara Snow wrote:
If you do that... i.e. export them as "real" end/foot notes, so they
appear each time they are used, will they then automatically
renumber? I take it they won't change to "ibid" and "op.cite" as
appropriated; is this true? If they renumber, can you remove one,
have them automatically renumber, move text around and have the
footnoe move with it, or simply move a footnote to be associated with
some other part of the sentence? I thought I tried everything to
determine this capability was in Legacy and was disappointed. I would
be thrilled to learn I overlooked something.
I've also been frustrated by not getting real endnotes in word
processing documents. But then I found out it's a bit more complex than
I thought. When you export them as real (editable) endnotes, you then
get an endnote listed for each and every citation. In other words,
endnote # 1 no longer applies to 6 different items. The number of
endnotes increases dramatically. In some cases, this may be fine, but it
really ruins the ability to print working reports with endnotes of
reasonable length. I think I read somewhere that there's a utility that
will convert them back to "unique endnotes" (the ones were note #1
applies to 6 items), but I'm not sure if it's free or if it's only
designed for specific software (genealogical or word processing). In any
case, it makes a significant extra step on every report.
Lisa
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