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From: "Teresa Ghee Elliott" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] WISHLST
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 10:15:09 -0500
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030801103118.0301be18@pop3.norton.antivirus>


Lee,
>>>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?>>>

There would be a place to assign a style to a tag type. Instead of
assigning the DEFAULT to the whole data set, we would assign the DEFAULT
to each tag type, much the way we do sentences and roles now. That tag
type would use that style until the user either 1) changed it at the tag
level (for that one tag just like sentences) or 2) changed it at the
DEFAULT level (which would change it for all tags just like sentence
structures do now.)

As far as programming, it probably would complicate things, but I really
don't see how it would slow things down, and the user could always
choose to use the standard default. This would truly be one of those
really advanced uses of the program. Someday, I hope that TMG 5.0 will
move beyond just being a 32 bit version of 4.0 and move into some new
features that will make it really stand out amongst the crowd. Name and
Place styles are one area where I can really see it doing that if users
took the time to use them. Yet at the same time, the standard set up is
still easy enough for the basic users to use. And being able to assign
several defaults based on tag type would really speed up data entry,
thus eliminating some of the complication. I realize that this is fully
something Bob isn't going to look at until 5.0 is finished. But someday
I hope it is implemented. Until then, I will continue to run John's
utility before I print any reports so that they are all consistent.


Teresa Ghee Elliott
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Hoffman [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 9:04 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] WISHLST

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
TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com>;
My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman>;
A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)


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