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From: "John Cardinal" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Location of Birth
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 20:17:31 -0500
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010204165658.02988050@127.0.0.1>


Allen Mellen wrote:
> John Cardinal wrote:
> >If the program allows any of the birth group events
> >to participate in the "group common birth place" processing, then it
> >probably has to include the past tense verb. OTOH, Terry was saying that
he
> >didn't know it worked that way; I'm sure you saw his post.
>
> I did see Terry's post and I concede the point.
> As far as reports in general are concerned, I think there are two fairly
> well defied positions -- those who would like the program to produce
> publishable reports automatically, and those who will send reports for
> refinement in a word processor regardless of how good they are. And
> probably there is a large group in the middle. In any case, I fall in the
> word processing contingent, so my opinions on the program generated text
> are pretty much irrelevant.
>
> Allen

Yes, I agree, though I find that I am really in both camps. For quick
reports to send to cousins or prospective cousins, I want the CRW to produce
simple narratives and detail reports. For output that I plan to publish
(even if only to my family), I will fix alot in a word processor.

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