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From: Kathy Lenerz <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Citation excerpt text in body
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 00:15:00 -0400
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>Is there any way to get text entered in the Excerpts Tab to print in the
>> narrative, without also entering it in the General Notes tab?

William T. Flight wrote:
> It sounds like you need a field code [CE] for citation excerpt, that you
> could then place in your sentence template (and general/reseach notes) where
> you want it to appear. In the sentence template, it would refer to the
> source citation attached to the event. In the general notes, instead of
> [S284], you would have [CE284], which would be the same as a normal embedded
> source citation, only the excerpt portion (if any) would appear in the body
> text rather than the footnote/endnote.
> I think that could be added. Let me know how this sounds to you.
> --Bill

That sounds like a good idea!

Thinking about how this would work--

- If you had multiple sources w/ excerpts for an event, you'd have to
individualize the sentence template by specifying the ID number of the
citation/excerpt?

- Would there be a way to generalize this by specifying in the default
sentence template the excerpt for a particular type of source (if a source
of that type was cited for that event)? That way, if one always wanted the
excerpt for a particular type of source printed, it wouldn't be necessary
to modify each individual sentence.

Examples:
[D], at the age of [A], [P] died <of [T]> [L]. <[PP] obituary read as
follows: [CR][CR][TAB][CE:OBIT]>

[P] appeared on < a census | the census of [DY]> [L] <, listed as [CE:CENSUS]>.

Just my thoughts-- always trying to make things easier.
Kathy


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