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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Carriage Returns
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:24:47 -0500
In-Reply-To: <002501c417e8$374ad880$6401a8c0@GatewayLaptop>


On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 07:52:34 -0500, Laurie Jones Williams wrote:

> In order to make a narrative easier to read I would like
> to break it up into logical sections. This I done, using
> sort dates to have all the religious tags together, then
> the education tags, then the employment tags, etc. I
> want to separate these topics into separate paragraphs.
> Since each individual is different and therefore wouldn't
> have the same tags, the carriage return code would not
> necessarily be in the same tag, i.e. baptism.
>
> I see two options:
>
> 1) Add a role to *every* tag with the carriage return
> codes in the sentence.

The problem with this one is that if you otherwise use roles in your
tags, you need two versions of each role; the regular one and a "new
paragraph" version.
>
> Or
>
> 2) Create a custom tag whose sentence would be
> [:CR:][:CR:], placed before the tag I want to begin each
> paragraph.
>
> Option 2 is my preference. Unfortunately, that results
> in [space][space][period] after the last sentence in the
> previous paragraph and a [space] before the first word in
> the new paragraph.

I agree that's a potentially good solution, but it doesn't work very
well for the reasons you cite. An enhancement to eliminate the period
has been made a number of times, but so far it hasn't appeared.
>
> Are these my only options?

No. As Lee suggests, I mostly customize the sentences at the
individual tag level to achieve the paragraphing I want. But, I have
created -NP (for new paragraph) versions of several common tags --
Anecdote, Note, and Occupation so far. This makes it easy to add the
paragraph break - just change the tag type, and you can see it in the
person view.

Terry Reigel


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