The paper length is not relevant since the chart flows from one page to the next.
Mobile
in.
mm
Portrait
2.75
70
For smart phones, not for printing
Landscape
5.5
140
For smart phones, not for printing
USA & Canada
in.
mm
Letter Portrait
8.5
216
Also Legal Portrait
Letter Landscape
11
279
Legal Landscape
14
356
Also Ledger Portrait
Ledger Landscape
17
432
International
in.
mm
A5 Portrait
5.82
148
A4 Portrait
8.25
210
Also A5 Landscape
A4 Landscape
11.71
297
Also A3 Landscape
A3 Landscape
16.54
420
The Text+ programs assume that the right and left margins are each about 25mm (1/2 inch) wide.
On the Format for Printing page, differences in page margins can be accommodated by the "fudge factor":
TNG Descendant Charts
Please note that you don't have to depend on these descriptions; you can quickly try out each of the chart types.
Graphical formats
"Standard" charts have a marvelous graphical format and show a fair amount of data for each person,
but they generate so much whitespace that they tend to be wider than the screen (or a printed page)
They tend to be hard to read and almost impossible to print if you generate more than three or four generations of data.
"Compact" charts have similar graphical layout, and are easier to read and print,
but don't display any data other than each person's name.
Note that if you want to print a "Compact" chart
with more than three or four generations of data,
you should probably specify "Landscape" orientation when you print.
The "PDF chart" is kind of a cross between the standard and compact formats, generated as a PDF.
On most computers, any web page can be printed as a PDF,
but this PDF format handles page breaks for specific paper sizes,
wheras PDF printouts of web pages just run the text through the page breaks
(The graphical charts' connecting lines sometimes disappear at certain zoom level.
When they are missing, you can use you mouse scroll whell or hit control-plus or control-minus to change the zoom level.)
Text formats
"Text" charts follow a standard outline-style format that provides more (i.e. denser) data than the graphical charts do.
"Text+" charts are kind of a cross between the graphical and text formats.
They can display much more data in less space than graphical charts or the "Text" chart.
(That's good news and bad news).
In particular, they requires much less horizontal scrolling,
and can accommodate large charts in one printed page width
(albeit sometimes with legal-sized paper in landscape mode).
They are also much more flexible than the other formats,
with several (perhaps too many) run-time options.
However,
The process of printing a Text+ chart can be a bit daunting, and
When you are looking at just a few generations, and when enough data is visible on the screen, the graphical charts tend to be easier to read.
"Register" charts are detailed descriptive reports.
They contain almost all of the data that I have for each person, including free-form notes.
But they aren't really 'charts' in the normal sense,
and don't give this kind of overview of the family tree that the other charts give.
"Count" charts don't list descendants at all;
they just show how many descendants a person has, broken out by generation.
Mary Carolyn Wilson
(7 Apr 1844 Polk County, Arkansas, USA - 22 Feb 1946 Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, USA)
John Henry Horton
(14 Oct 1840 Tennessee, USA - 8 Jun 1912 Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, USA)
     ├─Jimmie Lee Horton
(Farmersville, Collin County, Texas, USA;10 Dec 1874 - 9 Aug 1876)
     ├─Edgar Lee Horton
(6 Sep 1876 Farmersville, Collin County, Texas, USA - 30 Sep 1961 Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, USA)
     │ Nannie Bell Brannon
(4 Jul 1880 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA - 17 Sep 1940 Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, USA)
     │      ├─Nina Lee Horton
(Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, USA;24 Sep 1906 - 2 Aug 1988)
     │      │ + Archie Weldon Tabor
(1 Sep 1902 Brown County, Texas, USA - 2 Apr 1973 Childress, Childress County, Texas, USA)
     │      ├─Kenneth Foy Horton
(18 Sep 1910 Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, USA - 23 May 1991 Childress, Childress County, Texas, USA)
     │      │ Eula Mae Jackson
(12 Sep 1923 Walnut Springs, Bosque County, Texas, USA - 12 Apr 2008 Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, USA)
     │      │       + Living
     │      ├─Gordon Owen Horton
(12 Jan 1912 Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, USA - 4 Jul 1992 Childress, Childress County, Texas, USA)
     │      │ + Ida Mae Taylor
(Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, USA;2 Feb 1918 - 7 Sep 2008)
     │      ├─Thomas Fred Horton
(Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, USA;16 Jan 1916 - 29 Nov 1987)
     │      │ Juanita Willie Davis
(14 Apr 1918 Winters, Runnels County, Texas, USA - 24 Sep 2000 Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, USA)
     │      │       + Living
     │      └─Gretta May Horton
(Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, USA;24 Jun 1922 - 9 Apr 2007)
     │       Jimmy Collier Lindsey
(17 Oct 1922 Childress, Childress County, Texas, USA - 16 Nov 1987 Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, USA)
     │            ├─Eddie Nan Lindsey
(11 Sep 1947 Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, USA - 4 Oct 1993 Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA) =>
     │            │ + Living
     │            └─Joe Collier Lindsey
(21 Oct 1950 Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, USA - 11 Jun 2009 Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, USA) =>
     │             + Living
     ├─Charley McGarvey Horton
(5 Dec 1879 Farmersville, Collin County, Texas, USA - 20 Nov 1973 Childress, Childress County, Texas, USA)
     │ Julia Sparks
(2 Aug 1889 Texas, USA - 20 Apr 1915 Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, USA)
     │ :     └─Charlsie Jewell Horton
(14 May 1911 Wichita County, Texas, USA - 27 Sep 1929 Electra, Wichita County, Texas, USA)
     │ :      + Paul Gordon
     │ Lula Eva Simpson
(14 Aug 1889 New Boston, Bowie County, Texas, USA -      │ 28 Jun 1981 Childress, Childress County, Texas, USA)
     │      └─Leoma Doris (Fowler) Horton
(30 Jun 1910 Childress, Childress County, Texas, USA - 24 Jun 1993 Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, USA)
     │       Troy Arnold Riddell
(11 Nov 1909 Kosciusko, Attala County, Mississippi, USA - 3 Jul 1976 Childress, Childress County, Texas, USA)
     │            ├─Vana Marie Riddell
(1 Sep 1934 Electra, Wichita County, Texas, USA - 26 Sep 2000 Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, USA) =>
     │            │ + Edgar Allen Tobias
(10 May 1928 Marlin, Falls County, Texas, USA - 7 Feb 1998 Childress, Childress County, Texas, USA)
     │            ├─Troy Arnold (Bubba) Riddell
(19 Aug 1936 Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, USA - 3 May 2013 Childress, Childress County, Texas, USA) =>
     │            │ + Barbara Jean Nunley
(29 Aug 1943 - 22 Jan 1988 Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, USA)
     │            ├─Lilla Jeanene Riddell
(13 Mar 1940 Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, USA -      │            │ 1 Jun 2007 Childress, Childress County, Texas, USA) =>
     │            │ + Living
     │             + Jackie Miller Smith
(Childress, Childress County, Texas, USA;7 Mar 1937 - 4 Mar 1999)
     ├─Thomas Oscar Horton
(4 May 1882 Farmersville, Collin County, Texas, USA - 12 Feb 1986 Tucumcari, Quay County, New Mexico, USA)
     │ Anna Lela Stephenson
(12 Oct 1890 Arkansas, USA - 17 Nov 1979 Tucumcari, Quay County, New Mexico, USA)
     │      ├─Thomas John Horton
(26 Oct 1916 Tucumcari, Quay County, New Mexico, USA - 1 Dec 2001 Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, USA)
     │      │ Elvanell Ellison
(13 Sep 1917 Tucumcari, Quay County, New Mexico, USA - 14 Jul 1995 Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA)
     │      │ :      + Living
     │      │ + Living
     │      ├─Mary Ellen Horton
(6 Apr 1918 Tucumcari, Quay County, New Mexico, USA - 18 Aug 2004 Sequim, Clallam County, Washington, USA)
     │      │ Fred Randolph Booth
(22 Mar 1914 Byrnside, Lincoln County, West Virginia, USA - 15 Jul 1988 Sequim, Clallam County, Washington, USA)
     │      ├─Lonnie A Horton
(28 Apr 1920 New Mexico, USA - 30 Aug 1989 Conchas Dam, San Miguel County, New Mexico, USA)
     │      │ Julia Mae Watkins
(31 Oct 1916 Oklahoma, USA - 14 Sep 1995 Conchas Dam, San Miguel County, New Mexico, USA)
     │             + Living
     ├─John Ralph Horton
(4 May 1882 Farmersville, Collin County, Texas, USA - 25 Aug 1961 Monroe County, Michigan, USA)
     │ Orrie Strain
(10 Mar 1880 Parker County, Texas, USA - 16 Apr 1915 San Miguel County, New Mexico, USA)
     │ :     ├─Walter Lee Horton
(12 Sep 1910 Quay County, New Mexico, USA - 10 Jul 2001 Lucas County, Ohio, USA)
     │ :     │ Helen Grace Guthrie
(25 Jun 1914 Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, USA - 20 Oct 2000 Lucas County, Ohio, USA)
     │ :     │      ├─Barbara Elaine Horton
(29 Oct 1939 Lambertville, Monroe County, Michigan, USA - 27 Jan 2020) =>
     │ :     │      │ + Richard John Linzie
(9 Oct 1932 Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, USA - 4 Mar 2004 Ohio, USA)
     │ :     │       + Living
     │ :     └─Mary Gladys Horton
(11 Feb 1913 Quay County, New Mexico, USA - 16 Apr 2015 Washington Court House, Fayette County, Ohio, USA)
     │ :      Olen Neil Opdyke
(18 Nov 1915 Lambertville, Monroe County, Michigan, USA - 12 Nov 2006 Washington Court House, Fayette County, Ohio, USA)
     │ :           ├─John W. Opdyke
(21 Mar 1940 - 24 Dec 1963)