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From: Ted Meikle <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] GEDCOM (was ROOTSWEB)
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 06:46:01 -0600
References: <4.1.20001201231335.00aa5a38@pop.mis.net>




Lee Hoffman/KY wrote:

> Gene Stuff wrote:
> >I think a wish-list item is in order for a future version of TMG. The
> >discussion below makes a very good point. Perhaps TMG should allow the
> >creation of a NOTE for each event from the sentence template and
> >corresponding data in order to better preserve and export the data contained
> >within TMG. Another possibility would be to create a single note for each
> >individual by combining the software-generated text from all or some
> >user-chosen events.
> >
> [snip]

> Now if the user wanted only full sentences to be in the GEDCOM notes, then
> the user could enter complete sentences in the Memo field of each TMG tag.

[snip]

But why make the user do this? Couldn't the GEDCOM export simply have an option
of generating the sentences or paragraphs (converting all the variables to words)
and popping the whole text into a GEDCOM note file? This would violate no GEDCOM
standard--it simply would be a note.

I think Gene has a great idea, a way to preserve the data in sentences that
otherwise can only reside in the TMG environment.

Ted Meikle

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