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From: "Cheri Casper" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Re: Sentence Help
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:18:21 -0800
In-Reply-To: <004b01c2a4c7$e330d270$d7b9fea9@MYRNICE>


Myrnice - Because the only reports that I use *are* narratives.

CheriC



-----Original Message-----
From: myrnice [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 9:57 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: Sentence Help


CheriC

I know I will get flamed for this but why do you need to place the [PAR]
variable in the birth sentence. It is redundant in all of the reports except
the Individual Narrative.

Myrnice

"Cheri Casper" wrote on Sunday, December 15, 2002 11:29 PM
Subject: RE: [TMG] Re: Sentence Help


> Myrnice - Since someone's birth is usually the first event in his or her
> life <g>, what tag would you suggest to put sequentially before it?
>
> CheriC
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: myrnice [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 2:39 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: Sentence Help
>
>
> Cheri
>
> Put some other tag ahead of the birth tag and that will fix the extra
space.
> I have reported this to the developers.
>
> Myrnice
>
> "Cheri Casper" wrote on Sunday, December 15, 2002 3:03 PM
> Subject: RE: [TMG] Re: Sentence Help
>
>
> > James - I believe I have tested every possible combination of spaces and
> > variables and you still seem to generate an unnecessary/unwanted space
> > before the comma following an individual's name when the name of the
> parents
> > are also included in the sentence.
> >
> > CheriC
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James P. Colgate [mailto:]
> > Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 11:05 AM
> > To:
> > Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: Sentence Help
> >
> >
> > I often run into problems with commas -- sometimes there are extra ones,
> > sometimes an extra space, etc. My recommendation is to test some
> variations
> > and see how they print.
> >
> > Try things like:
> > [P] <[PAR]> was born <[D]> <[L]> <[M]>
> > [P]<[PAR]> was born <[D]> <[L]> <[M]>
> > [P]< [PAR]> was born <[D]> <[L]> <[M]>
> > etc., etc.,
> >
> > The idea is to keep trying the different permutations until one
> (hopefully)
> > corrects the problem. Most of time I can fix my problem, but sometimes
I
> > can't, in which case I rearrange the order of the sentence and it gets
> fixed
> > another way. If I were more methodical, I would make a chart for myself
> > which produced the results for all the different permutations. But I
> > haven't done this yet, so whenever problems show up, I do my several
> tests.
> > James Colgate
> >
> > PS: you typed your sentence structure in your email to us with *two*
> spaces
> > between [P] and <[PAR]>. Could that be the problem
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Elsa Vorwerk" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 11:46 AM
> > Subject: [TMG] Re: Sentence Help
> >
> >
> > > I've been using a variation of this sentence:
> > >
> > > [P] <[PAR]> was born <[D]> <[L]> <[M]>
> > >
> > > which produces a space between the principal's
> > > surname and comma following it. I'm happy to
> > > see that in the variation
> > >
> > > [P] was born <[D]> <[L]> <[PAR]> <[M]>
> > >
> > > the space is eliminated, but can anyone explain what
> > > generates the space before the comma in the former?
> > >
> > > Elsa in Allegany County, Maryland
> > >
> > >
> > > REFERENCE:
> > > Terry & Carlton - I think there is a small error in what Terry
indicated
> > for
> > > the "parent variable." For the Principal, you need to use the
variable
> > > [PAR]. This will generate the phrase "son of" or "daughter of"
> depending
> > on
> > > the sex of the Principal. [PARO] is the variable for the parents of
the
> > > Other Principal; this would be used, for example, if you were
indicating
> > the
> > > parents of the second person in a marriage event. This was the design
> > usage
> > > for TMG 4.0 and I assume that it is still effective in TMG 5.0x.
> > > CheriC =^..^=
> > >
> > >
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