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From: "Stuart Armstrong" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Wish List - Memo formatting
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 07:46:58 -0700
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Ronald Hanthorn wrote

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Following is how it looks in the Memo field in a death tag.
..
Death Certificate
Volume # --- 370 Register # --- 779
County. --- Allen
City / State ---Lima Ohio - Limed here for 62 years.

..

Following is how it printed out in a Journal Report.
..
Death Certificate*Volume # --- 370 Register
--- 779 *County. --- Allen*City / State ---Lima Ohio - Limed here for
62 years.
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I thought this had changed, but apparently it hasn't. Historically, TMG (and other genealogy programs as well) has "unformatted" certain text. I don't even remember why, but it has something to do with, well, I don't remember that either. Anyway, I have gotten into the practice of inserting spaces before each new line.

It used to be that to force a new line you had to put a period, a new line, and then a tab. That forced the interpreter to think of it as a new paragraph. Otherwise it would remove the CR's and run it all together as in your example above. The "tab" could be any number of spaces, typically the default of 4 or 5 usually used to start a new paragraph.

I still do this, although part or all of it is no longer necessary. I have found though that a single space is sufficient. Many of my older memos even have periods placed religiously at the end of each line to satisfy the original rigid requirements for a new paragraph, but I believe they are no longer necessary.

So I would enter the above as follows.

Death Certificate
Volume # --- 370 Register # --- 779
County. --- Allen
City / State ---Lima Ohio - Limed here for 62 years.
etc.

The presence of the space(s) in front of each line will force it to be treated like a new paragraph and it will come out the way you want it to.

I do this particularly with estate settlement inventory lists. It's just a habit I've gotten into without ever testing whether it's still necessary.

.. I don't know what the asterisks (*) are in your example above, but it's clear that's where you wanted the CR's to be. Try my method and see if it fixes it.

Stuart Armstrong

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