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From: "Nicholette Hart" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Re: FTM Import and Footnotes - Just Footnotes
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 02:41:12 +1300
In-Reply-To: <a0.6b36a30.2d788572@aol.com>


Donald, have you tried using Embedded Citations, you don't need to enter a
source number for them and the text is inserted as a footnote or endnote as
you specify

Nikki

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Subject: [TMG] Re: FTM Import and Footnotes - Just Footnotes

In a message dated 3/4/2004 6:11:48 AM Central Standard Time,
writes:

> If you are saying that the importing program should be able to distinguish
> the difference between the footnote being used as a source-citation or as
a
> text memo based on whether the source-citation is linked to a source (or
is
> empty)... We have seen FTM users who had many citations not linked to
> sources (and with blank citation fields) but who were using the footnote
> fields as source-citations rather than text footnotes. Whether a user
links
> the citation to a source or not, there is no way to determine what the
> intended use of the footnote field by the user might be.
>
> Jim


Jim /Greg,

I have been following this discussion with great interest. As I never was a
FTM user, the importing of FTM data is not of interest to me. But what is
of
interest to me is the discussion of adding a footnote as a footnote and only
a
footnote. I have run into this stumbling block in the past, discovered TMG
didn't handle it, so I couldn't use it.

So we understand ourselves here, I wanted to create a foot note to be
appended at the bottom of the print page no more and no less. Call this a
requirement if you like.
How would I do that? As the program ties citations to sources and I need
the
citation detail field to hold my memo, I would cite source zero (0). In a
way, special handling for source zero as the program does for witness and
"W0."
Since source zero by default does not exist, have TMG to treat these
"citations" as "memo/footnotes." They are always to be positioned on the
page where
they are identified. By default, each is unique for it they are not, the
"memo" then falls into the source area and should be treated as a source -
interview with yourself.

The crux of the problem here is that TMG, as presently designed, does not
distinguish a citation(CD)/memo from a citation(CD)/source.

It would seem that a recommendation is in order not to better service the
needs of a FTM import but to have TMG support memo/page footnotes uniquely
not as
citation detail to a source's citation.

In my way of thinking, once you have unique footnote/memo support, then
first
can you discuss how the FTM import should be handled in this area.

Hope I have not misread this discussion.

Donald Schulteis



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