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From: "Frank van Thienen" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Language strategies
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 18:47:56 -0700
In-Reply-To: <000901c313f2$a5e92800$4302a8c0@Cheasa>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Teresa Ghee Elliott [mailto:]
> Jumping in here. <G>

Feel free to jump anytime :-)

> Frank, not sure exactly what you want,
> but this might be a case for a language for a certain KIND of
> report, like Terry and I discussed last week. The easiest
> way would be create your language for the journal reports,
> and then copy that language to a new language for the Chart
> type reports and then just change the sentence structures for
> the tags to use your symbols. Then if you wanted to say use
> German in a Journal report, you would use your German
> language, and when you wanted German, but with symbols, you
> would use your custom GERMAN-symbols language. Am I helping
> any or am I confusing you more? <G>

But I _am_ using 2 languages, the standard English, as well as Dutch,
both defined in strings.dbf. I have a sentence defined for each tag,
each language. To output any report I have to consider whether it goes
to Dutchland or to New Zealand or whatever, pick the language and output
the report.
i.e. the language is _NOT_ tied to any specific report.

If I recall your discussion with Terry (I confess I didn't really pay
much attention), you were wanting the same thing, except both your
languages would be English, one formal, one informal. For each of your
languages, each of your tags, your sentence structure would be
different. To output a formal report, select the "formal" language and
away you go.
In contrast, the symbols discussed earlier (like "oo" for marriage) are
embedded in the Tag definition and are not effected by your choice of
language. If somehow the "Past Tense" and "Abbreviation" in the Tag
Definition screen would be extracted from the strings.dbf table . . .
Well, why isn't it? It would certainly solve one more problem for
multilingual tmg-ers.

Frank van Thienen
Vernon, BC Canada

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