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From: "Teresa Ghee Elliott" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] WISHLST
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 10:36:15 -0500
In-Reply-To: <LOBBKOOEANNIIOJMJAELGEEDGDAA.beth.roots@verizon.net>


Beth,
If I could get one and three, I would be happy to do 2 myself. I don't
think it is really that much harder to program. But I don't know much
about programming, so I could be wrong. <G> By the way, you explained
what I wanted better than I did too. <G>

Teresa Ghee Elliott
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-----Original Message-----
From: beth [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 9:33 AM
To:
Subject: RE: [TMG] WISHLST

Lee,

I'm not sure that items 1 and 3 on Teresa's wishlist would be all that
complex, at least from the user perspective. If the user could choose
the default Name style to be used on Name Group tags and choose the
default Place style to use on all other tags on a tag-by-tag basis in
the Master Tag Type List (MTTL), that would probably fulfill most of
what Teresa wants. Item 2 though seems overly complex and prone to user
error...beth

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Hoffman [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 11:04 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
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> A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)



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