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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Descendency chart(indented) in HTML format truncating problem
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 00:18:03 -0500


Bill Crossland wrote:
>I took the liberty to have a peek inside one of these reports which does
>work as expected. This was on Lee Hoffman's site , is called OREA1001.HTM,
>and looks wonderful. Of interest to me was the fact that Lee's file and mine
>had some differences which are obviously important. One difference that I
>could see was that in the body of my file there where <BR> codes as well as
>paragraph marks? while in Lee's file there where no <BR> codes. Frank Bax
>kindly viewed a small sample of my file and noted two other important things
>ie my file body is within <PRE> </PRE> codes and TMG did not appear to want
>to put more than about 85 characters per line into the output file. He
>thinks that this may be significant. BTW Frank tried to generate the same
>report and got similar, unsatisfactory, results as I did.
>
>I don't understand much of the above so I will pass it over to the experts.
>What are we doing wrong (there are at least 4 of us now- the army is growing
>(grin).

Probably the biggest difference is that I did extensive editing in my HTML
editor. Just as there a many ways to do something in TMG, there are many
ways to do things in HTML and accomplish the same thing. While I changed a
lot of HTML formatting, I really didn't need to. I could have only done
the minimal editing necessary and it would have been fine. But I like
things a certain way, and don't mind the work to make the changes.

I assume the page you looked at was a compressed pedigree or descendancy
chart - both were changed a lot. OTOH, the individual narrative pages on
E. C. O'Rear are pretty much as they were generated by TMG. The only
changes to those page were minor as introductory remarks, return addresses,
and the like. MOF, I tell what the changes were on those pages.


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