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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Sentence Variable [W]
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 10:08:50 -0500


Wendell H. Wilcox wrote:
>As there weren't too many of these events/tags, I just created another
>reciprocal tag for the witnesses so they could be principle. Not perfect
>but it will allow me to have the output that I want while waiting for the
>wish list items. Luckily TMG allows this kind of manipulation easily.
>I'm already glad I am changing to TMG.

I may be mis-understanding you here, but have you tried changing the
Witness Sentence? The [W] in a Witness Sentence should refer to that
Witness person while the [P] & [PO] should refer to the Principals of the
tag with [WO] referring to all other Witnesses.

So if you have John Smith as the Principal, and Jane & Joe Smith as
Witnesses to a census, you may have three completely different sentences.
The Tag Sentence would the used for John Smith, Jane Smith would have her
own Sentence, and Joe Smith would have his own sentence. Each would be
personalized to the person. The hard part would be if you wanted to
distinguish between the Witnesses in the Tag Sentence. Similarly, if you
have more than two Witnesses, it might be difficult to distinguish between
roles of the _other_ Witnesses in a Witness Sentence. For example, adding
Jim Smith as another Witness to the same census and attempting to treat him
differently in the Tag Sentence or in the Witness Sentences for Jane and
Joe would not be possible. However, you could treat him differently in his
own Witness Sentence.

Hope this helps -


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