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 Jane Young
(13 Nov 1833 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 16 Nov 1891 McMinn County, Tennessee, USA)
Elbert Bacon
(18 Dec 1833 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 28 Nov 1891 McMinn County, Tennessee, USA)
     ├─Sarah Elizabeth Bacon
(10 Apr 1855 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 26 Apr 1932 Riceville, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ Edmund Marion Roberts
(25 Oct 1846 Tennessee, USA - 21 Nov 1924 McMinn County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      └─6 children
(McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - )
     ├─Jacob Filmore Bacon
(8 Nov 1856 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 2 Sep 1923 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ Nancy (Nannie) Smartt
(12 Feb 1859 Tennessee, USA - 23 Apr 1923 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      ├─James Arthur Bacon
(15 Aug 1884 Tennessee, USA - 27 Dec 1965 McMinn County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      ├─Nannie Irene Bacon
(17 Aug 1907 Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA - 18 Sep 1988 Clayton County, Georgia, USA) =>
     │      │      │ + Luther Marion Plank
(McMinn County, Tennessee, USA;10 Mar 1895 - 17 Apr 1948)
     │      │      │ + Calvin Henry Harris
(McMinn County, Tennessee, USA;4 Aug 1895 - Jul 1967)
     │      │      ├─Ethel Bacon
(5 Aug 1909 Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - 21 Oct 1995 McMinn County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      │ + James Denver Vincent
(McMinn County, Tennessee, USA;9 Nov 1904 - 4 Jun 1988)
     │      │      ├─Helen Elizabeth Bacon
(McMinn County, Tennessee, USA;16 Jun 1913 - 21 Feb 2000) =>
     │      │      │ + Kenneth Barham
(McMinn County, Tennessee, USA;7 Dec 1909 - 14 Jun 1985)
     │      │      ├─Grace P Bacon
(30 Apr 1914 Tennessee, USA - Dec 1986 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      ├─Frances Bacon
(Abt 1916 Tennessee, USA - )
     │      │      ├─Elizabeth Bacon
(8 Jul 1906 Riceville, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - 29 Mar 2001 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA) =>
     │      │      │ + Henry Moore
(31 Oct 1903 Tennessee, USA - 19 Jan 1991)
     │      │      ├─Orlen E Bacon
(McMinn County, Tennessee, USA;2 Oct 1909 - 16 Sep 1915)
     │      │      ├─Omar Ernest Bacon
(McMinn County, Tennessee, USA;27 Mar 1912 - 10 Apr 1978) =>
     │      │      │ + Mary Elizabeth Sutton
(Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, USA;14 Sep 1912 - 22 Apr 1993)
     │      │      ├─Jacob C Bacon
(28 Apr 1914 McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - 20 Oct 1951 Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      ├─Ethel T Bacon
(Abt 1920 McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - )
     │      ├─Mary Elizabeth Bacon
(26 Sep 1890 Tennessee, USA - 2 May 1929 Bearden, Knox County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ + H Clyde Collison
(24 Feb 1886 Indiana, USA - 11 Oct 1933 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      ├─Fletcher Henry Bacon
(13 Mar 1893 Tennessee, USA - Sep 1973 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ Helen Irene Harrison
(Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA;10 Nov 1894 - Dec 1979)
     │      │      ├─Fletcher Henry Bacon, Jr
(Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA;25 May 1918 - 9 Jul 2000)
     │      │      ├─Roberta W Bacon
(11 Feb 1920 Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA - 27 Aug 2009 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA) =>
     │      │      │ + Wallace J Denton
(10 Oct 1916 Tennessee, USA - 20 Aug 2004 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      └─Eleanor Marie Bacon
(6 Sep 1922 Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA - 6 Jan 2009 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA) =>
     │      │       + Living
     │      ├─Jacob 'Leonard' Bacon
(1 Jun 1895 Tennessee, USA - 12 Aug 1913 Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      ├─Lloyd Smartt Bacon
(14 Mar 1897 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 25 May 1998 Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ Dorothy Bressler
(19 Jul 1900 Pennsylvania, USA - 21 Jun 1990 Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      ├─Harriet Francis Bacon
(Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA;20 May 1923 - 22 Jun 1995)
     │      │      │ + William Crawford Anderson
(6 Feb 1917 Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, USA - 28 Jul 2003 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      └─Ernest Smartt Bacon
(2 Feb 1900 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 4 Jan 1934 El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, USA)
     │       Nell Lee Howard
(26 Sep 1900 Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA - 9 Aug 1994 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │            └─Mary Charlotte Bacon
(12 Jun 1924 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA -      │             14 Apr 2007 Fort Oglethorpe, Catoosa County, Georgia, USA)
     │             + Edwin Frank Jurczak, II
(5 Aug 1927 Hammond, Lake County, Indiana, USA - 5 Apr 2010 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     ├─Hugh Franklin Bacon
(13 Oct 1858 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 15 Oct 1934 McMinn County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ Melissa Randolph
(May 1876 Tennessee, USA - 1956)
     │      ├─Arthur N Bacon
(16 Mar 1894 McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - 7 Oct 1918 Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France)
     │      ├─Gracie Bacon
(McMinn County, Tennessee, USA;24 Jun 1896 - 31 Dec 1991)
     │      │ David Jerome Barham
(Abt 1883 Tennessee, USA - 13 Aug 1956 McMinn County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      ├─Lula Bacon
(Jun 1897 McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - )
     │      ├─Robert James Bacon
(McMinn County, Tennessee, USA;14 Jan 1900 - 31 Mar 1975)
     │      │ Nora Lee Roderick
(McMinn County, Tennessee, USA;25 Apr 1905 - 22 Apr 1974)
     │      │      ├─Ralph Nelson Bacon
(McMinn County, Tennessee, USA;Abt 1924 - 1 Mar 1999)
     │      │      ├─Agnes Cathaleen Bacon
(27 Nov 1932 McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - 9 Mar 1948 Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      ├─Ollie Bacon
(Abt 1903 McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - )
     │      ├─Viola Bacon
(16 Dec 1903 McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - 1 Apr 1997 Elizabethton, Carter County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ Jacob Lee Lingerfelt
(20 Dec 1898 McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - Apr 1968 Elizabethton, Carter County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      └─at least 2 children
(Tennessee, USA - )
     │      ├─Hubert Bacon
(13 Dec 1906 McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - Aug 1985 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ Gladys L Thomas
(28 Jul 1913 Tennessee, USA - 6 Aug 2006 Dayton, Rhea County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      ├─Billie Wayne Bacon
(Abt 1932 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA - 1 Jan 1933 Washington County, Tennessee, USA)