[PAF] Book software

[Cheryl Singhal <csinghal@CapAccess.org>]

I've tried, as you could probably tell, five of 'em by now.  They all do 
an adequate job.  The differences are minor, usually cosmetic.  
Personally, on a small data-set (say under 200 people, I think it's 
easier to do it by hand.

By the time you run the software once to see what it looks like, then 
either edit the software output or your NOTES to fix the grammar, syntax 
and style problems, you're doing an awful lot of manual intervention.  

If you wish to include, as I do, trivia things that you don't want in 
your NOTES, those have to be entered by hand, or imported at need.  
(F'instance, in the first generation, I've got some tidbits about daily 
lifestyles during  his life -- don't need that in the NOTES, don't WANT 
it in there-- so I'm having to insert it.  In later generations, I've got 
things like "this generation was born over a period of 88 years, during 
which time ...." Or, two of our older generation have written When I was 
boy and when I was a bride items; again, don't want it in the notes, so 
I'm importing each of those separately.)

Either you have to be VERY VERY careful when you enter your notes, or you 
need to do a lot of cleanup in the book.  I figured I'd be working with 
the notes fairly often, and cleanup and style issues would be easier to 
resolve en-masse.  Others may decide the other way. (g)

Cheryl



============================================================================
For assistance and help for the PAF Mailing List please contact
ed.rogers@innernet.org or http://www.innernet.org/paf/
Searchable list archives at http://www.innernet.org/paf/archives/
============================================================================