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From: "JIM savage" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Narrative Reports and Second Site
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 23:29:41 -0500
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Marty, I do as John suggested, I make my SS site, close it, open TMG, then
open SS browse. Then I flip back and forth by minimizing and
expanding,making changes in TMG that will make my SS site look and say what
I want it to. I then just close TMG and remake my SS site. Works like a
charm for me.

Savage family genealogy
http://personal.ayrix.net/~savage1/
Unger family genealogy
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unger
Christmas begins it and Easter completes it.
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From: "martysgenes" <>
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Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Narrative Reports and Second Site


> As usual I am not clear (very fuzzy brain!). I mean to "publish" to a CD.
> The whole family has access to computers. I think my question is: should I
> do the polishing of the reports in TMG, OR should I run SS,look for the
> first mess I come to, and then go to TMG and fix it, and then re-run SS
> and
> look again.
> Marty in AZ
>
>
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> From: "martysgenes" <>
>> John Says:
>> >> I think most SS users will attest that if your TMG reports look
>> >> good,
>> then so will the narratives/pages in SS.<<
>>
>> The reports in TMG look TERRIBLE! I was thinking that by doing
>> individual Narrative or Journal, one person at a time, I can smooth
>> out the rough edges. It may take me forever, and I don't have that long!
>>
>> I will go ahead an run a Second Site on my database, and see if I just
>> want to go off in a corner and cry, or whether it will help me focus
>> on the BIG problems.
>>
>> Thanks John for your answer.
>> Marty in AZ
>>
>
> Marty,
> When you use the term "publish" do you mean to a website and/or CD or do
> you
> mean a traditional book?
> While Second Site is a great program for doing the former it seems to me
> to
> be ill-suited to traditional book publishing without a LOT of cobblework
> that can be done easier in TMG itself or in a wordprocessing program;
> unless, of course, you use two sets of tags - one for Printed output and
> one
> for SS output.
>
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