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.
Father: Lawrence Wingfield
(1725 Dinwiddie County, Virginia, USA - 1773 Halifax County, North Carolina, USA)
Mother: Mary Sturdivant
(21 Nov 1728 Prince George County, Virginia, USA - 29 Sep 1773 Virginia, USA)
William Y Wingfield
(1755 Dinwiddie County, Virginia, USA - 1816 Warren County, Kentucky, USA)
Mary Annie Messer
(1766 Dinwiddie County, Virginia, USA - 1816 Warren County, Kentucky, USA)
     ├─John R Wingfield
(7 Feb 1780 Bethania, Surry County, North Carolina, USA - 21 Dec 1850 Hollywood, Clark County, Arkansas, USA)
     │ + Sarah Elizabeth Simmons
(1787 Virginia, USA - 1854 Hollywood, Clark County, Arkansas, USA)
     ├─William Riley Wingfield, II
(7 Jan 1782 Bethania, Surry County, North Carolina, USA - 3 Mar 1856 Lavaca County, Texas, USA)
     │ Sophia Echols Holcomb
(15 Apr 1788 South Carolina, USA - 12 Jan 1874 Jackson County, Texas, USA)
     │      ├─Susan Wingfield
(1807 St Clair County, Illinois, USA - )
     │      ├─James Holcomb Wingfield
(1808 Bellville, St Clair County, Illinois, USA - 1 Jan 1861 Morales, Jackson County, Texas, USA)
     │      ├─William Marchbank Wingfield
(26 Feb 1810 St Clair County, Illinois, USA - 20 Nov 1868 Hempstead County, Arkansas, USA)
     │      │ Eliza Caroline Ward
(11 Mar 1816 Louisiana, USA - 11 Nov 1898 Nevada County, Arkansas, USA)
     │      │      ├─Mary Jane Wingfield
(26 Apr 1834 Clark County, Arkansas, USA - 18 Apr 1920 Antoine, Pike County, Arkansas, USA) =>
     │      │      │ + John Jackson Wingfield
(12 Sep 1844 Arkansas, USA - 15 Mar 1905)
     │      │      ├─Isaac Ward Wingfield
(19 Dec 1836 Prescott, Nevada County, Arkansas, USA - 7 Aug 1904 Allen, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, USA)
     │      │      │ + Sarah Narcissus McKinley
(2 Feb 1841 Alabama, USA - 7 Aug 1908)
     │      │      ├─Joel Henry Wingfield
(Abt 1838 Louisiana, USA - 21 May 1862 Corinth, Alcorn County, Mississippi, USA)
     │      │      │ + Jane Josephine McKinley
(1845 Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA - 24 Mar 1918)
     │      │      ├─William H Wingfield
(14 Jan 1841 Hempstead County, Arkansas, USA - 9 Dec 1921)
     │      │      ├─Indiana Wingfield
(Abt 1843 Miller County, Arkansas, USA - 1904 Nevada County, Arkansas, USA)
     │      │      │ + John William Witherspoon
(1847 - 1892)
     │      │      ├─Nancy E Wingfield
(Abt 1845 Hempstead County, Arkansas, USA - 17 Aug 1917 Providence, Nevada County, Arkansas, USA)
     │      │      ├─John F Wingfield
(7 Mar 1848 Hempstead County, Arkansas, USA - 19 Mar 1899 Arkansas, USA)
     │      │      │ + Elizabeth Harison
(Abt 1852 Mississippi, USA - )
     │      │      ├─Eliza Sophia Wingfield
(Oct 1852 Clark County, Arkansas, USA - 9 May 1936 Nevada County, Arkansas, USA)
     │      │      │ + Thomas Calvin Renfroe
(Jan 1849 Tennessee, USA - 1924)
     │      │      ├─Emily Ellen Wingfield
(24 Nov 1854 Hempstead County, Arkansas, USA - 12 Aug 1919 Prescott, Nevada County, Arkansas, USA)
     │      │      │ + William D Stockton
(1849 Itawamba County, Mississippi, USA - 1921)
     │      │      └─James Washington Wingfield
(10 May 1857 Arkansas, USA - 30 Nov 1946 Prescott, Nevada County, Arkansas, USA)
     │      │       + Mary Melvina Stockton
(Abt 1858 Itawamba County, Mississippi, USA - Abt 1879 Nevada County, Arkansas, USA)
     │      │       + Malinda Caroline Cornelius
(9 Jul 1860 - 19 Jan 1898)
     │      │       + Nancy Jane Stockton
(Apr 1856 Itawamba County, Mississippi, USA -      │      │       18 Jan 1941 Nevada County, Arkansas, USA)
     │      ├─Mary A Wingfield
(1812 St Clair County, Illinois, USA - 1859 Pike County, Arkansas, USA)
     │      │ + English Calvin Jacobs
(Abt 1812 - )
     │      ├─Joel Henry Wingfield
(22 May 1814 Belleville, St Clair County, Illinois, USA - 31 Jan 1894 Morales, Jackson County, Texas, USA)
     │      ├─Jane Wingfield
(1817 St Clair County, Illinois, USA - 1860 Rusk, Cherokee County, Texas, USA)
     │      ├─John Wesley Wingfield
(14 Mar 1821 Arkadelphia, Clark County, Arkansas, USA - 12 Jan 1879 Pisgah, Pike County, Arkansas, USA)
     │      ├─Lewis Garrett Wingfield
(2 Jun 1823 Clark County, Arkansas, USA - 2 Mar 1873 Oenaville, Bell County, Texas, USA)
     │      │ + Elizabeth Brashear
(16 Nov 1828 Crawford County, Illinois, USA - 18 Nov 1872 Bell County, Texas, USA)
     │      │ + Mary M Baldwin
(Est 1837 - )
     │      ├─Sophia Wingfield
(1824 Clark County, Arkansas, USA - )
     │      ├─Elizabeth Wingfield
(16 Apr 1828 Hempstead County, Arkansas, USA - 10 Mar 1915 Nevada County, Arkansas, USA)
     ├─James Wingfield
(1784 Kentucky, USA - 1820 Clark County, Arkansas, USA)
     ├─Jacob Wingfield
(1787 Bethania, Surry County, North Carolina, USA - 6 Oct 1877 Clark County, Arkansas, USA)
     │ + Rhoda Waldon
(Abt 1797 South Carolina, USA - 16 Mar 1892 Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA)
     │ Sarah B Haines
(21 Jun 1789 Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, USA - 1830 Sangamon County, Illinois, USA)
     │      └─James Sloan Wingfield, Sr
(18 Jan 1817 Kentucky, USA - 19 Mar 1889 Clark County, Arkansas, USA)
     │       Seleta A Askey
(28 Dec 1822 Texas, USA - 19 Jan 1896 Clark County, Arkansas, USA)
     │            ├─John Jackson Wingfield
(12 Sep 1844 Arkansas, USA - 15 Mar 1905) =>
     │            │ + Mary Jane Wingfield
(26 Apr 1834 Clark County, Arkansas, USA - 18 Apr 1920 Antoine, Pike County, Arkansas, USA)
     │            ├─Harrison Alexander Wingfield, Sr
(Clark County, Arkansas, USA;9 Apr 1848 - 28 May 1901)
     │            │ + Julia Ann Culp
(9 Oct 1855 Somerville, Fayette County, Tennessee, USA - 2 Apr 1905 Gurdon, Clark County, Arkansas, USA)
     │            ├─Joseph M Wingfield
(31 Jan 1853 South Fork, Clark County, Arkansas, USA - 5 May 1897 Clark County, Arkansas, USA)
     │            │ + Sarah Coleman
(Abt 1859 Arkansas, USA - )
     │            │ + Sarah Coleman Randle
(Jul 1858 Clark County, Arkansas, USA - )
     │            ├─James Sloan Wingfield, Jr
(Clark County, Arkansas, USA;4 Feb 1856 - 11 Jan 1931)
     │            │ + Frances C (Fannie) Hammett
(14 Apr 1859 Mississippi, USA - 21 Jul 1880 Clark County, Arkansas, USA)
     │            │ + Nancy Elizabeth (Bessie) Clark
(30 Jul 1866 Winston County, Mississippi, USA -      │            │ 1 Jan 1949 Okolona, Clark County, Arkansas, USA)
     │            ├─William M Wingfield
(May 1860 South Fork, Clark County, Arkansas, USA - Abt 1903 Clark County, Arkansas, USA)
     │            │ + Amanda Meadows
(Abt 1862 Pontotoc County, Mississippi, USA - Bef 1900 Clark County, Arkansas, USA)
     │            └─Samuel H Wingfield
(Abt 1865 South Fork, Clark County, Arkansas, USA - 14 Aug 1875)
     ├─David Wingfield
(Warren County, Kentucky, USA;1796 - Abt 1813)
     └─Charles Wingfield
(16 Feb 1798 Warren County, Kentucky, USA - 22 Jul 1881 Delight, Pike County, Arkansas, USA)
      + Mariam Halsey
(19 Sep 1802 Dickson County, Tennessee, USA - 14 Jan 1877)