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From: "Teresa Ghee Elliott" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] WISHLST
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 17:22:18 -0500
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030801165523.00a14520@pop.sprynet.com>


Darrell,
That is kinda what I meant too.
I think we all agree that no new changes will be implemented until 5.0
is finished in it's current state. But after that, I hope that this can
be looked at more fully.

Teresa Ghee Elliott
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-----Original Message-----
From: Darrell A. Martin [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 4:18 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] WISHLST

At 11:03 AM 8/1/03 -0400, Lee Hoffman wrote:
[snip]
>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

Hi, Lee:

What would be needed is for the default name and/or place styles to be
saved with the tag type, in much the same way as default sentences for
each
role in a tag type are currently saved. Obviously, just as in the case
of
sentences, it would need to be possible to override the styles locally.

In my opinion, *all* output styles would work better if they were
connected
to tags and/or reports *only*. That is, there should be no additional
entries in the master lists (whether for names or places) solely because
of
styles. I don't have an opinion on whether I would want a *default*
style
to be assigned to each name or place. More important, I don't expect to
spend too much time thinking about it right now since my idea is
unlikely
to be accepted anytime "soon". If ever.... Suffice it to say that the
way I
use ver. 4.0d (and the way I expect to use ver. 5 when I make the
permanent
move) is structured in such a way as to emulate this approach,
especially
with places.

That is only to inform you of my thinking process. And, I do understand
that name styles and place styles do not work exactly the same now.
Anyway,
it would not be necessary to implement such a radical change in order to

create a more tag-centered style approach. The much more limited
approach I
stated in the first paragraph shouldn't be all that difficult to put
into
place. Of course, it should wait until more pressing matters are dealt
with; that is, finishing TMG 5 with its currently defined feature set, a

manual, and a CD.

Darrell


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