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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] General tags or VERY specific tags?
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:59:44 -0500
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Linda Gaylord-Kuhn wrote:

>Hate to tell you this, Stuart, but (being persnickity as usual) I am
>going to insist that "by" and "before" are different. "By 1800" does
>include the year 1800 so, if I were inclined to change it, I would
>change it to "before 1801". As a matter of fact, that's exactly what I
>did during my Roots III days. Similarly someone "living 1800" died
>"after 1799".
>

Well, then you might as well use TMG's "before" because it works as you
define "by." <vbg> Then you could use the custom language feature to
change "before" to "by."

Terry Reigel




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