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From: "Jack D. Lovelace" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG Church-adm sentence question
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:19:26 -0700
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Carole,

Here is one possible solution to your problem. There are three steps to
the solution.

First, create a Place Style (I call it Church Place Style)
Church Place Style
at <[CITY], ><[STATE], ><[COUNTRY], ><[POSTAL]>

Select this place style on the TAG Entry screen when you enter the
church admission data. To avoid problems with other place styles, put a
code in [L10] to identify the style on the TAG Entry screen.

Second, you will need two roles, each with it's own sentence:
for those cases where you known the name of the church.
1)CHURCH
[P] <was|and [PO] were> admitted <[D], ><to the [L1] church>< located at
[L2], >< [L]>

for those cases where you do not know the name of the church.
2)NO CHURCH
[P] <was|and [PO] were> admitted <[D], > to the church < [L]>



On 4/4/2012 6:12 PM, Carole Livingston wrote:
> We're running TMG 8.02.0000 and are having two problems getting a church
> admission sentence to print correctly.
> What we usually enter is the name of the church in L1, the street address (in a
> few modern cases where we know it) in L2, the normal location stuff in L3-L6.
>
> We'd like it to print something like:
> - if we know the church name (it's in L1):
> He was admitted on 1 Jan 2012 to the Calvery Church at Hanover, NH.
> - if we don't know the church name (L1 is empty):
> He was admitted on 1 Jan 2012 to the church at Hanover, NH.
>
> Here's our church-adm sentence
> [P]<was|and [PO] were> admitted<[D]> to the< [L1]| church> <[L3]>< , [L5]>
>
> This works if we have a single principal with an L1 field
> #37 with an L1 field
> She was admitted on 1 Sep 1890 to the Greystone Presbyterian Church at
> Elizabeth, NJ.
> and it works if we have two principles without an L1 field
> #37& #23 without an L1 field
> She and Robert Mitchell Livingston (23) were admitted in Apr 1884 to the church
> at Elizabeth, NJ.
>
> But it doesn't work for a single person without an L1 field
> #5072 without an L1 field
> He was admitted on 18 Feb 1728 to the at Hampton Falls, NH. (the word "church"
> is not being printed)
> and it doesn't work for two people with an L1 field
> #37& #23 with an L1 field
> She and Robert Mitchell Livingston (23) were admitted in Apr 1884 to the church
> at Elizabeth, NJ. (the L1 church name entry is not being printed)
> We've been through the sentence help screens and can't find what's wrong. Can
> anyone help?
> Thanks
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Jack D. Lovelace

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