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From: "Jill Morelli" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] ins, ats and ons
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 07:16:27 -0500
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Kevin,

I have one that is "located at". I use this primarily for my burial tag,
but I have used it on other occasions as well. I was happy when TMG allowed
me to revise the name to be more generic than "cemetery" to Loc-at.

John Smith is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, located at Britt, Iowa.

It helps to break up the sentence structure of TMG and makes the narrative
sound less "canned."

Jill

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Sholder [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 10:39 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [TMG] ins, ats and ons

Dale,

I've also struggled with this. Place styles do not help here. But in
reading your e-mail gave me a thought. You (we) could create custom roles
for each tag that we want to have a different preposition for in that tag.

So for the birth tag:

DEFAULT SENTENCE - [P] was born <[D]> <[L]>
IN - [P] was born <[D]> <in [L]>
AT - [P] was born <[D]> <at [L]>
ON - [P] was born <[D]> <on [L]>

This would keep a single place style (U.S. Standard Place).
The prepositions you want based on how you want it to read.

Any other thoughts or opinions??

Thank you for your time,
Kevin L. Sholder

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 10:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [TMG] ins, ats and ons

Someone like Lee Hoffman ought to be able to answer this one. I have lots
of, say, birth info but it could be deaths, marriages or other events. In
some cases I have year of birth; say 1923, in others I have an exact date,
say 15 Feb 1923 (happens to be mine). I want the sentence to read: Joe was
born IN 1923, when I only know the year but ON 15 Feb 1923 when I have the
date. The same holds for places. He died IN Minnesota and he also died IN
Minneapolis, but he died AT 39 Front St, ST Paul. Firstly I presume there
is no way to make TMG recognize the date or place form and apply the right
preposition. Given that is not possible is there a way to sort of
generically construct a sentence to read the way I want it to, other than
manually entering the correct preposition for every situation.-Dale


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