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From: Linda Gaylord-Kuhn <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] General tags or VERY specific tags?
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 18:14:54 -0600
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030101182549.0317cac0@pop3.norton.antivirus>


> From: Lee Hoffman [mailto:]
>
> Linda Gaylord-Kuhn wrote:
> >I'm going to miss not being able to use the "by" modifier for
"regular"
> >dates in TMG. I used it a _lot_ in the UFT date fields. Yeah, I
know,
> >I can still use it as an "irregular" date. Not a point worth crying
> >over. <G>
>
> You can still use it. The difference is that you would put it in the
> Sentence by modifying the Date Variable. Normally the Dat Variable is
> <[D]> and it would be changed to <by [D]> (capitalizing the 'b' if the
> variable is the first of the sentence.

Of course; that's doable. But then, to me, that's burying key
information in the sentence structure. When used in the context of a
death date, the presence or absence of the "by" modifier can be
critical. See my point? Of course in a _printed_ report, the argument
is moot whether the word is in the date field or in the sentence
structure.

Linda


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