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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Help on [P] variable, 2nd occurrence not working?
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 22:45:24 -0500


Michael McWatters wrote:
>I am having trouble in making the second occurrence of the sentence
>variable [P] to make **he/she** in the following sentence structure.
>
>the **[P] [M1]** bit below should read [P]="He" was a farmer....But all I
>get is the [P] =Thomas McWatters, as this is the second [P] in my template
>why does this not work? I think I have tried moving brackets and not
>getting anywhere
>
>I know I can just write it into the memo [M1] But why? can I not get this
>to work. The help files notes the following
>
>**[P]Current Principal, Full name. A pronoun (he/she) is used for the
>second and subsequent sentences for the same person.**

This refers to the next sentence as in the next tag. If you have a large
narrative which you have split into multiple paragraphs by the use of the
special [:CR:] variable, then the full name of the Principal will print for
the first sentence of each paragraph. However, the second and subsequent
use in the same tag sentence (even if you make it as multiple sentences)
must be included in your narrative work-up (i.e., the Memo field or the
Sentence field).

Hope this helps -


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