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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] WISHLST
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:03:38 -0400
In-Reply-To: <000401c35839$2e5be3a0$4502a8c0@Cheasa>


Teresa Ghee Elliott wrote:
>I am working on cleaning up data and adding names to tags, and it
>occurred to me that if I could do the following it sure would speed up
>data entry.
>
>1) Assign a NAME style to a NAME-tag type. IE. If I used the
>1920CENSUS name tag, I could assign the 1920 CENSUS Name style to that
>tag, and it would automatically use that name style when I selected that
>name tag.
>
>2) Assign NAME tags to a certain type of tag. IE. If I added a
>1920CENSUS tag, then it would automatically assume that any name tags
>attached to that tag would use the 1920CENSUS Name tag.
>
>3) Assign PLACE styles to certain types of tags. IE. If I added a
>1920CENSUS tag, then it would automatically use the CIVIL DISTRICT place
>style.
>
>4) I would be able to change any of these and they would be users
>creatable, even with new styles and tag types.
>
>Currently, I create a new tag, change the place style, create a new name
>tag, change the name style, add the name tag to the new tag. Repeat.
>If I forget a step, then when the report prints, it looks different from
>what I was expecting, and I have to hunt to find where I made my
>mistake. Yes, I know that I can use John's Utility to do what I want
>globally, but I am requesting that TMG do this for the user. This would
>be an advanced feature, but I am sure once more people began to use 5.0
>and styles, it would be greatly appreciated.

As it is now, you can choose the default Name Style and/or Place Style to
be used throughout the data set. This default Style would then be used as
appropriate depending on the Tag chosen for data entry. As there may be
many different Name and/or Place Styles, a user can as a Tag is being
entered choose a different Style if desired.

How do you envision that TMG could know which of many Styles (other than
the default for the data set) should be used for any particular Tag. If
you have one Style (of the appropriate type) for use under one Tag(s) and
another for another Tag(s) and still another for another Tag(s), how would
TMG know which Style (other than the default) would be "automatically"
applied to any one Tag as opposed to another Tag?

I can see that this might be nice to have. But it would seem to me that it
would complicate a program which is already accused of being complicated.


Lee Hoffman/KY
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