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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] FTM Import and Footnotes
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 20:25:57 -0800
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On or about 09:51 03/04/04 a carrier pigeon from Gregory Winters delivered:

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

Directly from the manual (do you have the manual?):

SHOWING DATA - REPORTS
Memos

Memos that are not included in an event sentence may be printed as
footnotes or endnotes, embedded, or embedded in parentheses.

Note the two conditions: 1) the event sentence must NOT reference
the memo field and, 2) you have to pick ONE of the four options for the
ENTIRE report.

>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.

How different programs handle the contents of the memo field is
indeterminate. More so when you consider that TMG allows for split memos
(using || to separate parts, and then using [Mx] in the event sentence,
where x is the part of the memo to be used). When I imported my UFT data,
TMG actually created some memos that used [M3] but not [M2], etc....

I'd suggest looking at the, maybe slightly dated (though it /does/
list TMG5 as of Nov 2002), "report card" http://www.mumford.ca/reportcard/
Hmmm, still gave TMG 96pts/80%, FTM10 got 67/56. Unfortunately, the new
version of the site doesn't give a detailed explanation of how they
performed the "portability" test.


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

Well, if you use TMG's HTML report output it would seem a given
that, if it isn't a problem in a printed report, it isn't a problem in a
web page report. <G> I suspect SecondSite also honors that much.

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