Re: [LegacyUG] Relation who can't be correctly linked.

2016-06-07 Thread Barbara Shroyer
I don't link when neither parent is known. I created a Link event to use in this type of situation, but use this event very sparingly. "William Thomas Bloor may have been a grandson of and __." I'd then also have Link event for the grandparents reading " and may have been the

RE: [LegacyUG] Some questions about getting rid of Sourcewriter sources

2015-01-18 Thread Barbara Shroyer
Pat, Your Basic source Footnote/Endnote Citation and Subsequent Citation are identical. Your Bibliography is also the same except for omitting the Source Detail. With SourceWriter the all three are different. The Subsequent Citation will be shorter, often much shorter, than the

Re: [LegacyUG] Some questions about getting rid of Sourcewriter sources

2015-01-18 Thread Barbara Shroyer
: Barbara, The only lists of citations that I know of are those at the end of reports. Pat On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Barbara Shroyer karenhapp...@cox.net mailto:karenhapp...@cox.net wrote: Pat, Your Basic source Footnote/Endnote Citation and Subsequent Citation are identical

RE: [LegacyUG] Some questions about getting rid of Sourcewriter sources

2015-01-18 Thread Barbara Shroyer
Wendy, I was not criticizing your choice of Basic sources over SourceWriter. That is your choice and, yes, Legacy is a flexible program. I'm used to TMG which is even much more flexible and whose users have often been extremely creative in utilizing that flexibility. That flexibility is also

RE: [LegacyUG] Some questions about getting rid of Sourcewriter sources

2015-01-18 Thread Barbara Shroyer
Confused. SourceWriter sources are much better than the basic sources. My sources imported from TMG into Legacy as Basic and I'm in the slow process of changing them to SourceWriter. The SourceWriter sources are better written. They also have the Full Citation, Subsequent Citation, and

Re: [LegacyUG] Reverse to do list?

2014-12-16 Thread Barbara Shroyer
Why would you not have tags set permanently? I and others are coming into Legacy from TMG. TMG calls them flags. We are used to having an unlimited number of these and also being able to have several or more settings for each rather than just on or off. Barbara On December 16, 2014 8:59:49

Re: [LegacyUG] Where to put gathered information?

2014-11-21 Thread Barbara Shroyer
You could create a new Legacy file or files for these items. I'm migrating into Legacy from TMG. I have a couple of files there for these purposes. This makes the information readily available, but doesn't clutter up my main file. The system will work just as well in Legacy. I store all my