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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Repeating Citations
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 12:46:28 -0500
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"James E. (Jim) Campbell" wrote:

> When I run a Genealogy Report (Register) the citation
> is shown multiple times. For example, if I have two citations for each
> of the three buttons, the citation reference on the report might read
> "John Smith, 21,23,21,23,21,23" (The six numbers should be
> superscripts.) It would be preferrable that this just read "John Smith,
> 21,23".
>
> I understand why it is happening. If there isn't some magic way of
> compacting these numbers, I am willing to live with it in order to be
> able to have a citation for each of these three instances. It is a
> worthwhile (to me) tradeoff, but it would be nice to have the numbers
> shown only once.

Yes, there is. Click on the Publication Tools button of the Report
Definition Screen, then on the Memo/Sources tab. Remove the check from
Include relationship sources. Now this doesn't actually "compact" them -- it
just ignores the citations on the relationship tags. This means if you put
anything in the CD for them that's not in the Name tag citation, it will not
print.

I wish there were a way to show the citations for the relationship tags more
usefully in reports. I agree that they are important. But so far as I know,
none of the report styles used by the major journals provide a way to do
this. And I've not been able to think up a way to suggest for them to be
displayed better. So for now, I enter the citations but turn off the
printing of them in reports, thus losing much of their value.

Terry Reigel

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