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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG newbie
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 12:08:22 -0800
In-Reply-To: <1d6.65e05a4.2bba6204@aol.com>


On or about 19:31 03/31/03 a carrier pigeon from delivered:

>L2,.... Would someone please explain the purpose of creating places styles
>for cemeteries, businesses, schools, etc. How does this actually improve
>your reports?

Consistency, and less data entry.

If the default style is just (I'm not opening TMG to cut&paste, so
bear with the pseudo-styles):

<[detail],> <[city],> <[state],> <...

then for a cemetery one may have to keypunch

in Visitation Cemetery
North Dorr
MI

in order to generate a sentence reading (assuming the report is configured
for NO "at" or "in")

xxx was buried in Visitation Cemetery, North Dorr, MI

Whereas creating a cemetery style with a specified rendering of

<in [detail] Cemetery at> <[city],> <[state],> <...

only requires data entry of

Visitation
North Dorr
MI

to generate the sentence

xxx was buried in Visitation Cemetery at North Dorr, MI


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