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From: Greg Lovelace <>
Subject: [TMG] Re: Confused on text exhibits
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 13:55:55 -0400


Hi, Barbara

You wrote:
> I attempted to enter an obit as a text exhibit. Nothing I found in
>the manual or in the archives of this list made sense when I tried it. The
>obit plus assorted wills, deed, etc. I've transcribed are currently either
>stored in the "My Documents" folder on the hard drive or on floppies. Can I
>move them from there to TMG exhibits? Would I be better off doing them as
>memos?

First off, are you using them as external exhibits or internal exhibits? I
always do transcriptions as internal exhibits, and do it thus:

First, the file you import from has to be a plain text (.txt) file. I
always keep a blank text file called "copy" on my desktop to use for
this. Open your transcription, select and copy all the text, then open the
"copy" text file and paste that newly copied text there, deleting any other
text that may be present. Close the copy.txt, and use that as your import
file in the exhibit definition screen of TMG. TMG will import the text
from that file into its own format, where it can be edited from TMG, and
store it with the rest of your TMG data files. You won't have to access
the original transcription again.

External text exhibits will probably be treated differently. But I find
TMG a good way to store transcriptions. I use this method both for the
individual tags extracted from that transcription and for the source.

Hope this helps....

Peace,
Part of the Tree,
Greg Lovelace

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