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From: "Cheri Casper" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Sentence variable testator
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 10:45:26 -0700
References: <60.cf489f7.27f8a76d@cs.com>


And among other interesting things that frustrate TMG newbies are poor
sentences. For example, the default sentence for an adoption is "[P]
<was|and [PO] were>adopted <[D]> <[L]>". Now why, for heaven's sake, is the
part about [PO] included when an adoption tag can only have one principal?

In the big scheme of things, TMG does a good job, but there is a lot of
minutia that needs to be fixed. It seems that from some of the posts on
this list, it is the littlest details that people seem to spend the most
inordinate amount of time trying to resolve.



----- Original Message -----
From: <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Sentence variable testator


> In a message dated 3/31/01 6:03:17 PM Central Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
>
> > > This is why new comers get so frustrated with TMG.
> >
> > Because it provides so many features??? Seriously, a powerful tool takes
> > time to understand. That is not to say that TMG is perfect. Also, when
> > trade-off decisions are made, some of them will not be decided the way
you
> > want.
> >
> >
>
> Maybe so, but a special variable should do what it says it's going to.
And
> in my help file, under roles there is no mention of it replacing the Full
> Name with a pronoun. Now I have to use the special variable PLUS a
> workaround to get it to do what it says it is supposed to do.
> Teresa Ghee Elliott
> List Owner
>

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