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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: memo help
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 09:39:47 -0500


Miriam Smith wrote:
>Could someone please help with what has probably an obvious answer, but I'm
>stumped. I have an Occupation Tag in which I want to have 2 sentences. The
>first sentence is included in the auto sentence created by TMG and the other
>comes after that.
>
>For example: the first sentence would be that [P] was [M1] [D] - (I deleted
>[L] as that was not required). The "second sentence" then comes after that.
>
>>From reading TMG Ref Man P268 I need to put delimiters of two vertical lines
>between my two sentences and make an [M1] and [M2]. However, where on my
>keyboard are two vertical lines?

Since others have pointed have pouinted out the proper key to form two
vertical lines, I'll mention that I'm not sure that is what you want. The
delimiter is required to effectively split the Memo field into multiple
Memo fields. For example, suppose you have data on a number of people
which not only give their occupation but their specialty within that field.
If you have a number of attorneys and know the field in which each
specializes then you may create a custom Occuptn-Spcl tag maybe with a Tag
Sentence like:
[P] was [M1] specializing in [M2].
(I'm leaving out the date and location for simplification).
The Memo field entry might be:
"an attorney||criminal law" (no quotes)
This would result in a printed sentence like:
John Doe was an attorney specializing in criminal law.

But these are clauses or phrases of a sentence while Miriam is speaking of
multiple sentences. This could be treated in a similar way. The Memo
field might have the following entry:
"an attorney||He specialized in criminal law" (no quotes)
and the Tag Sentence would be (simplified):
[P] was [M1]. [M2].
resulting in:
John Doe was an attorney. He specialized in criminal law.

Hope this helps -



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