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From: "Cheri Casper" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Sentence Help
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:25:20 -0800
In-Reply-To: <005001c2a4c9$0da20960$d7b9fea9@MYRNICE>


Myrnice - There is an extra space after the name and BEFORE the comma:
Myrnice Roberts , son of yada and yada, etc. It is the space AFTER the name
and BEFORE the comma setting off the appositional phrase that is the
problem. Someone suggested using [P1] instead of the [P] but then that
generates something else (can't remember) what it is. Seems we are in a
"do-loop" here that won't resolve this problem without a fix by WG.

CheriC



-----Original Message-----
From: myrnice [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 10:05 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] Sentence Help


Diana

There is only one comma/space inserted. It is inserted just before the [PAR]
or [PARO] variable.
There is also a space inserted after the name in the first tag if you use
the [P] variable, or some other variation of the [P] variable.

You are talking about placing data such as <the [PAR]> inside of conditional
variables which will print out as "the, son of...". There is only one
comma/space after the word "the" but it comes from the fact that the
variable "[PAR]" supplied it.

Myrnice

"Diana Powell" wrote on Sunday, December 15, 2002 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Sentence Help


> Terry Reigel wrote:>
> >
> > I suspect the comma appears because the variable was invented for the
> > marriage tag, and it was simple for that tag to have all the added
> > phrase coded as part of the variable. They can't remove it now because
> > of the millions of marriage tags users have created that would produce
> > the wrong output if it was changed.
>
> That definitely makes sense for the first comma, eg. the one that
> directly precedes the [PAR] or [PARO] variable, but the troublesome
> comma is added AFTER the extra words inserted within the brackets
> preceding [PAR]. I can't imagine a situation where anyone would want
> both a comma before AND after an added word. The only situation where it
> would be desireable is if you added a complete modifying phrase within
> the brackets before [PAR] or [PARO], but I am having trouble thinking of
> an example where that would be the case - especially in a template.
>
> It seems that what is happening is that TMG is coded for a comma before
> [PAR] and [PARO] regardless of whether something is added within the
> brackets or not - add a modifying word within the brackets and you get a
> second comma. I'm not sure it would mess up existing marriage sentences
> for anyone if the program only added a comma BEFORE the brackets
> containing [PAR] or [PARO].
> >
> Diana P.


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