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From: "Jim Byram" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] FTM Import and Footnotes
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:33:23 -0500
References: <B1006736536@hdflem01.fl.hostdepot.net>


Greg,

> 1. That I can have it displayed in reports wherever and however I choose
> (printing inline, inline parentheses, footnotes, endnotes - particularly
the
> last two).

TMG only outputs text footnotes/endnotes when you choose to output memos or
source citations. As Donald is saying, there is not a third class of text
footnotes that can be output independent of one of the two choices above.
The memo and source output options include inline, with parens, footnotes,
endnotes but apply to all memos or to all sources.

Embedded citations are designed to optionally output only text. These
footnotes/endnotes are only output when source output is chosen in the
report definition. You can make all or a portion of a tag memo into an
embedded citation. You can have multiple embedded citations in a memo.

TMG citations have no direct mechanism to tie the citation to specific data
except by embedded citations or by comments in the citation detail.
Different people on this list deal with this in various ways. The ability to
have citations to specific data fields (similar to UFT I suppose) has been
requested as a wish list item by various users.

> 2. That the area where this text will be stored conforms to recognized
> GEDCOM format standards (unlike FTM) so that an export from TMG to family
> and friends who may not use this product is not going to screw up *their*
> printouts.

The data discussed above and is our messages a bit ago will be output to
GEDCOM. The expectation that you can move data between programs and have
perfect printouts depends on how complex the data are and what reports are
used. As a rule, this generally does not work very well except for very
simple data.

> 3. That what I create in TMG is not going to cause problems with Web page
> creation.

There are always issues from any program depending on how the webpage is
created. Look at the websites in the lists that have been discussed on TMG-L
over the last few days.

Jim


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