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From: "James E. (Jim) Campbell" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Repeating Citations
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 13:07:26 -0500
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Terry Reigel wrote:

> "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

Terry,

Thanks for the quick response. That is just what I wanted. This is an
acceptable tradeoff for me. It gets me most of what I want without the ugliness
of the repeating citations.

Thanks again,

Jim Campbell



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