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From: "s.lloyd9" <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Uncapitalized Pronoun
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:40:59 +0100
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Hi Wim,
My idea is to 'Omit Parents' in reports, though it's going to involve a
lot of work adding a general note to every birth and marriage event.
Perhaps there may be a down side of doing this that I haven't thought of?

Sally
----- Original Message -----
From: "wim prange" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Uncapitalized Pronoun


> Hi Sally,
>
> I've ran an IN and the first solution works best. When you set the option
to
> exclude notes, the <, [G]> section will not be used. Because the
Birth-event
> is usually the first event in a narrative you will get the following
though:
> "Dr Henry Maturin Johnston, J.P., son of Dr Benjamin and Emma (Maturin)
> Johnston, was born on 24 January 1851 in Tullyaughnish, Rathmelton, County
> Donegal, Ireland, the second son of Dr Benjamin Johnston and Emma
Maturin".
> The names of the parents will appear twice in this case.
> With this solotution, ticking "in text" was not necessary: both times, the
> note was in the bodytext. Events that didn't have the G-code in the
template
> printed the notes either as footnotes, either in text.
>
> The second option worked in preview, but in a Narrative Report, there was
a
> period plus comma between 'Ireland' and 'the'. Also, I had to tick the "in
> text" option, otherwise the note would print as a footnote. I couldn't
> figure out why this solution would trigger a different behaviour.
>
> Gr. Wim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "s.lloyd9" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 12:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Uncapitalized Pronoun
>
>
> > Hi Wim,
> > Perhaps I've got things muddled up, but if I add [G] to the event
> sentence
> > template doesn't that over ride the include/exclude option in report
> > options? What I'm trying to achieve is two versions of my sentences,
a
> > short version using the default sentence template and a longer version
> using
> > default sentence + contents of general note.
> >
> > Sally
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "wim prange" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:28 PM
> > Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Uncapitalized Pronoun
> >
> >
> > > Hi Sally,
> > >
> > > I'm not quite sure what you mean with "I would like to be able to
> control
> > > when the General Note prints in reports, so I haven't added [G] to the
> > > Sentence Template". As I understand it, you have omitted the [G]-code
> from
> > > the Global Template, and add it to a template when necessary. Is this
> [G]
> > > then added to a default Event Template, or do you add it on a
one-by-one
> > > basis?
> > >
> > > One possibility is this:
> > > Template: [P] was born [D+L]<, [G]>
> > > Note: <[(P3%)] the second son of [P1] and [P2]>
> > >
> > > Another:
> > > Template: [P] was born [D+L]<[G]>
> > > Note: <[(P3%)], the second son of [P1] and [P2]>
> > >
> > > The Marriage Event could be constructed accordingly:
> > > Template: ''[P] married [S], [D +L]<, [G]>
> > > Note: <[(P1%)] the youngest daughter of [I#] of [L#]>
> > >
> > > Gr. Wim
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "s.lloyd9" <>
> > > To: <>
> > > Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:15 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Uncapitalized Pronoun
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi Paul and Wim,
> > > > I've been experimenting with adding General Notes to my Birth
> Events.
> > I
> > > > want the end result to be something like ''Dr Henry Maturin
Johnston,
> > J.P.
> > > > was born on 24 January 1851 in Tullyaughnish, Rathmelton, County
> > Donegal,
> > > > Ireland, the second son of Dr Benjamin Johnston and Emma Maturin''.
I
> > > would
> > > > like to be able to control when the General Note prints in reports,
so
> I
> > > > haven't added [G] to the Sentence Template. For this example my GN
> > reads
> > > > '', <[(P3%)] the second son of [P1] and [P2]>'', but this gives me a
> > full
> > > > stop (period) and an extra space between ''Ireland'' and '', the
> second
> > > > son''. I would also like to do the same sort of thing with Marriage
> > > Events,
> > > > ''A married B, [D +L], the youngest daughter of C of [Place].''
> > > > Any thoughts?, perhaps we need something like the [NOSEP] code for
> > > Notes?
> > > >
> > > > Sally
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "wim prange" <>
> > > > To: <>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 11:00 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Uncapitalized Pronoun
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Hi Paul,
> > > > >
> > > > > > [D+L],<[G]>
> > > > > >
> > > > > > (Can't put the comma inside the conditional brackets for the G
> code
> > or
> > > > > will
> > > > > > get a space before the comma after the Location)
> > > > >
> > > > > [D+L]<, [G]> does the trick for me
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > On 08 February 1769 at the Core Sound Monthly Meeting,
Carteret
> > > > County,
> > > > > > North Carolina, He presented a certificate from Pasquotank
Monthly
> > > > Meeting
> > > > > > of Friends to marry.
> > > > >
> > > > > I get the same results, also after changing the template to
[D+L]<,
> > > [G]>.
> > > > > When I copy "[P] presented a certificate from [1L#] to marry" in
the
> > > > > template - instead of [G] - everything is fine.
> > > > >
> > > > > Gr. Wim
> > > > >
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