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From: Eric Haas <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] nicknames
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 15:59:54 -0400
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In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010903110615.00b1b3d8@mail.eskimo.com>



Monday, September 03, 2001, 3:28:13 PM, you wrote:

V> In my crazy family, we have a lot of nicknames. My mother, Elnora
V> Catherine, has gone by "Sue" since her birth (long story). My brother
V> Harold goes by "Corky." In narrative reports I want to include these
V> nicknames in the text because no one would know who I was talking about
V> otherwise! However, I want to use their formal names on the subject line
V> and when referring to "legal" events. For example: Harold married ...; but
V> Corky won a prize. I know that I can set the Role in the sentence structure
V> to reflect given name, first name, etc., but is there a code for the common
V> or nickname? Or should I just forget the codes and type in the nickname
V> when I want to use it?

There is no variable for nicknames; probably because a person could
have more than one nickname tag and, then TMG wouldn't know which one
to use.

There is a N variable but, that works for the current name tag only.

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