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From: "Michel Vuijlsteke" <>
Subject: [GENBOX] Witnesses bug(let)
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:30:45 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20040229171842.E8B2737EDD@apate.telenet-ops.be>


This template

[P] was born [D+L]<. [W:godfather]< was| and [W:godmother] were> [PP]
godparents><. [W+:gynecologist] was the [WR]><. Also present: [WWR+]>

Will generate this sentence:

Jan Philippe David Vuijlsteke was born on 18 February 2004 in Gent. Alec
Stanislas James Vuijlsteke and Katrien De Meyer were Jan's godparents. Henk
Loobuyck was the gynecologist. Also present: Maria Virginia Mertens,
midwife; Inge Dhaene and and Octavia Gilliet, nurses. Jan was 50 cm long
and weighed 3630 g.

One "and" too many before the last witness.

Michel

-----Original Message-----
From: marekrichard [mailto:]
Sent: zaterdag 28 februari 2004 21:05
To:
Subject: [GENBOX] Witnesses in Ancestor Narrative

Oh Boy, now I'm confused....!!!!!

After installing Genbox and without modifying any templates, I would
generate an Ancestor Narrative (using myself as the subject). In the first
generation right at the top I would get this...

1. Richard Charles Marek,[i] son of John and Monika (Pabich) Marek,[ii] was
born on 20 January 1957 at Norwegian American Hospital, Chicago, Cook
County, Illinois. Witnesses: R. Bard, MD, attending physician.

So far so good but in the second generation, where I am a child, I would get
this...


1
i.
Richard Charles Marek was born on 20 January 1957 at Norwegian American
Hospital, Chicago, Cook County. Witnesses: R., attending physician.[i]









Notice that the witness has no surname. I cannot figure out what generates
the witnesses after the Event sentences. I tried Wim's examples for the 3-4
different templates that would control it but, adding any sort of "witness"
formatting in the templates gives me a event sentence which includes the
witness in the sentence AND then the witnesses are listed after the
sentence. Nothing has changed the truncating of the name.

Confused and Stumped,
Rich



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