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Subject: Re: [TMG] Variable Carriage Returns
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 03:43:20 EST


In a message dated 01/12/2001 11:57:15 PM Pacific Standard Time,
writes:

> Are you placing the [:CR:] variable at the beginning of the Tag Sentence or
> at the beginning of the Memo field? I have many [:CR:] variable entries in
> my dataset and have no problem with the Family Group Sheet (FGS) Reports.
> For example, if you have looked at the Individual Narrative for Judge E. C.
> O'Rear on my personal website (URL below), you will have seen many
> paragraphs. These are almost all caused by the entry of the [:CR:]
> variable in Tag Sentences as needed. I just double-checked with a FGS for
> the same person and got as nice an FGS as I would like.

Hi Lee~

Thanks so much for checking on this....I was wrong. I didn't mean Family
Group Sheets, I meant to say the Genealogy Report-Reverse Register. Yes, I
have the carriage returns at the beginning of the tag sentences for the
birth, marriage and death tag templates.

Without the [:CR:]'s, the Genealogy report would print like this for the
children:

"Lydia Lucinda Brown; Lydia was born at Unknown, Unknown Co, MI, Jul, 1850;
at age 17 she married Hiram P. Fuller at Unknown, Jackson Co, WI, Mar 29,
1868; Lydia died, before 1926."

With the carriage returns at the beginning of the birth, marriage and death
tag sentences it now reads:

"Lydia Lucinda Brown;

Lydia was born at Unknown, Unknown Co, MI, Jul, 1850;

at age 17 she married Hiram P. Fuller at Unknown, Jackson Co, WI, Mar 29,
1868;

Lydia died, before 1926."

This formatting just looks a little odd when using the semicolons in the
text, then blank lines...then the continuation of the text. Just my opinion
and my personal preference. As others have said, there are ways around
things you don't like, I could keep the carriage returns in when running
Individual Narrative reports and then take them out when running the
Genealogy Report-RR.

Laurie

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