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Subject: Re: [TMG] Chat Followup - String Cites
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 17:25:15 EST
In a message dated 2/3/02 3:26:01 PM Central Standard Time,
writes:
> Andy - Your idea is not supported by any reference or style manual that I
> have used. One big thing, semicolons, and signals. I have seen a single
> citation for an article take up approximately 7/8 of a page and it is still
> one paragraph. Of course, if this is your preference, have your word
> processor search and replace the semicolons in the footnotes with hard
> returns.
>
>
I've no doubt you've never seen it before. I hadn't either until I typed it!<G
>
My main goal is easy reading. That is the main reason I've set up a special
Narrative Timeline Descendancy Report. Each sentence is:
[:CR:][:CR:][BOLD:]<[D]>:[:BOLD] {event type} <[L]><[M]> i.e.:
24 MAY 1819: Born Kensington Palace, London, England
20 JUNE 1837: Succeeded her paternal uncle William IV
21 NOVEMBER 1841: Birth of her first child, Victoria, Buckingham Palace,
London, England
etc.
I've found a lot of people don't like reading what appears to the eyes as a
run on sentence-especially if it contains a lot of numbers. I'll admit that
it does take more paper but I'd rather have something that people will
actually use than just glance at and then pile in a bookcase somewhere.
--
Andy-The Jaded Genealogist
"Genealogy-The Original Blood Sport"
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