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From: "Cheryl Freeman" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Locations in sentences
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 08:09:20 -0600
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Hi Lee,

I gave your reply some serious thought, but I knew that I had captured the
county/parish/district for all my census citations and didn't see a need to
compensate for a missing one on my census tags...until I ran an IN last
night on someone who was enumerated in St. Louis, which is not in a
county...! I put the [L3} back into my census tags, and thanks to you, I
have the commas inside the conditional markers: <[L3],>< [L4],>< [L5]> and
it works. I am ok with the cities being included, as I have still removed
the [L2] text that became awkward in the sentence.

Thanks!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Hoffman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 7:13 AM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Locations in sentences


> While it is unlikely that you will not have a county in a Census Tag, it
> is possible that for the county to be missing in other Tags. In that
> case, the resulting sentence would have an un-wanted comma as in:
> "John Smith was enumerated on the census of 1900 at , South
> Carolina..."
> which is what would happen using "<L4]>, <[L5]>". Instead, I would
> suggest that the comma be placed inside the Conditional Marker for the
> [L4] variable as: "<L4], ><[L5]>". The sentence would then print like:
> "John Smith was enumerated on the census of 1900 at South
> Carolina..."

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