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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] GEDCOM (was ROOTSWEB)
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 11:51:01 -0500
References: <4.1.20001201231335.00aa5a38@pop.mis.net>
In-Reply-To: <3A28EF09.BE88576E@minn.net>


Ted Meikle wrote:
>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.

Becauise the Sentence fields are not the designed place to enter sentence
as you mean. They are designed to contain Sentence Structures which have
no meaning outside TMG.

This is similar to entering place data into a date field in any program.
It might export, but other programs would not understand it and would place
it on an error list at best.


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