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.
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(1775 Rutherford County, North Carolina, USA - Bef 1822 Roane County, Tennessee, USA)
Abner Deatherage, Sr.
(1773 Stokes County, North Carolina, USA - 25 Jan 1839 Roane County, Tennessee, USA)
     ├─Alexander Deatherage
(1797 Tennessee, USA - Dec 1885)
     │ Elizabeth Ahart
(Abt 1814 Virginia, USA - Aft 1870)
     │ :     ├─George Deatherage
(Abt 1833 Roane County, Tennessee, USA - )
     │ :     └─Sarah Ann Deatherage
(Feb 1834 Tennessee, USA - Bef 1910)
     │ :      + Isaac Crabtree
(3 Mar 1827 - 4 Oct 1854)
     │ :      + James Wylie McCarroll
(8 Mar 1837 Roane County, Tennessee, USA - 17 Dec 1924 Emory Gap, Roane County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ + Sara J Gideon
(Abt 1824 Tennessee, USA - Aft 1870)
     ├─Abner Deatherage, Jr.
(3 Jan 1810 Tennessee, USA - 28 Nov 1886 Smithfield, Tarrant County, Texas, USA)
     │      └─Permelia A Deatherage
(Abt 1845 Tennessee, USA - )
     ├─Mary (Polly) Deatherage
(Abt 1812 Greene County, Tennessee, USA - Bef 1849 Rhea County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ + John Jolly
(Abt 1809 Greene County, Tennessee, USA - 1860 Rhea County, Tennessee, USA)
     ├─Patsy Snow
(Abt 1816 Greene County, Tennessee, USA - Bef 1864 Roane County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ + Benjamin Snow
(Abt 1812 North Carolina, USA - Bef 1900)
     ├─Lucinda Deatherage
(18 Aug 1816 Roane County, Tennessee, USA - 6 Jul 1865 Gainesboro, Jackson County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ John Anderson Matheny
(20 Feb 1812 Roane County, Tennessee, USA - 5 Nov 1878 Gainesboro, Jackson County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      ├─Margaret Sellers Matheny
(25 Mar 1837 Gainesboro, Jackson County, Tennessee, USA - 11 Jun 1926 Jackson County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ + Joseph L Grimsley
(27 Mar 1833 - 23 Jan 1860)
     │      │ + John Peyton Mabury
(Jackson County, Tennessee, USA;17 May 1842 - 2 Jul 1922)
     │      ├─Mary Ann (Polly) Matheny
(24 Jun 1839 Roane County, Tennessee, USA - 28 Oct 1860 Putnam County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ James Edward Kuykendall
(15 Dec 1838 Jackson County, Tennessee, USA - 30 Sep 1871 Putnam County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      └─Olive Irene Kuykendall
(28 Feb 1860 Putnam County, Tennessee, USA - 13 Sep 1908 Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee, USA) =>
     │      │       + Leander Travis (L.T.) Hutcheson, Sr
(16 Nov 1854 Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA -      │      │       6 Jan 1934 Doyle, White County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      ├─Annie Matheny
(28 Nov 1841 Roane County, Tennessee, USA - 26 Sep 1918 Putnam County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ Jasper Jefferson Kuykendall
(27 Apr 1843 Jackson County, Tennessee, USA - 26 Nov 1927 Cookeville, Putnam County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      └─Garland A Kuykendall
(Putnam County, Tennessee, USA;5 May 1869 - 2 Nov 1924)
     │      │       + Alma Freiley
(Mar 1877 Tennessee, USA - Aft 1934)
     │      ├─Jacob E Matheny
(25 May 1844 Gainesboro, Jackson County, Tennessee, USA - 26 Nov 1936 Mercedes, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA)
     │      │ + Harriett Terry
(10 Oct 1845 Jackson County, Tennessee, USA - 20 Feb 1924 Munday, Knox County, Texas, USA)
     │      ├─John English Deatherage Matheny
(12 Dec 1846 Jackson County, Tennessee, USA - 24 Dec 1937 Pana, Christian County, Illinois, USA)
     │      ├─Samuel D Matheny
(14 Jun 1848 Jackson County, Tennessee, USA - 23 May 1911 Niota, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ + Eliza A Martin
(Feb 1857 Tennessee, USA - )
     │      ├─French Pickel Matheny
(11 Mar 1853 Gainesboro, Jackson County, Tennessee, USA - 10 Oct 1936 Ten Mile, Meigs County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ Martha Jane Curton
(19 Jan 1856 Meigs County, Tennessee, USA - 13 Aug 1922 Harrison, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      ├─Lena Leota Matheny
(4 Jul 1877 Tennessee, USA - Mar 1975 Harriman, Roane County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      │ + William Arthur Ewing
(22 Dec 1875 Roane County, Tennessee, USA - 18 Dec 1948 Harriman, Roane County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      ├─Harriett Lucy Matheny
(14 Jan 1880 Meigs County, Tennessee, USA - 8 Feb 1967)
     │      │      ├─Samuel Denton Matheny
(17 Jun 1884 Meigs County, Tennessee, USA - Sep 1968 Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee, USA) =>
     │      │      │ + Emma Lee Holloman
(13 Jan 1886 Tennessee, USA - 27 Aug 1958 Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      └─Eva Clara Matheny
(28 Feb 1895 Meigs County, Tennessee, USA - 15 Jul 1970 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      ├─Nancy P Matheny
(26 Oct 1855 Jackson County, Tennessee, USA - 16 Jul 1917 Putnam County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ + William A Whitson
(23 Jan 1857 Putnam County, Tennessee, USA - 23 Jan 1933 Red Boiling Springs, Macon County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      └─Morrison Cummings Matheny
(21 Jun 1860 Jackson County, Tennessee, USA - 17 Sep 1953 Rio Hondo, Cameron County, Texas, USA)
     │       Ida Bell Bridges
(14 Aug 1865 Barren County, Kentucky, USA - 13 Jul 1909 Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky, USA)
     │            ├─Eugene Matheny
(Abt 1900 Kentucky, USA - )
     │            ├─Eudell Matheny
(7 Jan 1900 Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky, USA - 17 Nov 1965 San Benito, Cameron County, Texas, USA)
     │            │ + James 'Ervin' Wilson, Sr
(14 Dec 1897 Holland, Allen County, Kentucky, USA - 30 Dec 1971 Cameron County, Texas, USA)
     │            └─Ova Matheny
(19 Sep 1902 Kentucky, USA - 27 Dec 1978 Pana, Christian County, Illinois, USA)
     │             + Charles 'Stanley' Hancock
(25 Nov 1900 Kentucky, USA - 29 Nov 1986 Pana, Christian County, Illinois, USA)