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From: Linda Gaylord-Kuhn <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] General tags or VERY specific tags?
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 11:06:46 -0600
In-Reply-To: <3E146500.7020906@reigelridge.com>


Terry wrote:
> You're intuition is right on -- I think that's what Stuart was
referring
> to in a comment about past discussions of sorting. <g>

BMT (before my time) I guess ... I didn't know the story.

> As I recall the
> explanation, Bob V said quite a while back that this is because he
found
> that users really meant "before 1975" to mean including the year 1975
--
> what you mean by the term "by." I agree with your logic, but that's
the
> way it is and I don't think it's going to change.

Point taken. <G>

> As far as the program
> goes, I don't find it to be a big deal, as it mainly affects sorting,
> and you can control that by changing the sort date.

Right.

> That doesn't help with the distinction you want to make in the printed
> output. My suggestion to use the custom language option was somewhat
> tounge-in-cheek -- it really will work but it's not all that easy.

I think that was the suggestion that was offered when I wanted both
"circa" and "about" (not either or)? <g>

> There's an article on it on my website, but it's for TMG4 and I've not
> finished updating it for TMG5. And I think there's a problem with TMG5
> anyway, since part of the strategy requires use of a function in John
> Cardinal's utility, and I think last time I looked it wasn't available
> yet in the version for TMG5.

I'll put that reading on my to-do list. Speaking of John's Utility,
Astrid goaded me into actually INSTALLING it this morning <I was kinda
scared to ... afraid if I did, I'd want to use it> but I found out
pretty quickly that I actually do know enough about TMG at this point to
be able to use a lot of it's functions. However I don't think it's
going to help me fix my problem Baptism & Christening tags ... at least
I couldn't figure out how to un-Principal a P2 on a tag with only one
Principal. <VBG>

Linda


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