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From: "Ken Darvell" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Variables not working in Footnotes FINAL
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:53:24 +1000
In-Reply-To: <00e901c4471c$28fbbf20$6401a8c0@charliexv>

Jim and Lee,

I hear what you say but do not accept that it is not a 'fault'.
I have sent it off to support for clarification.

I do want to thank you for taking the time and look forward to
a lot more healthy debate on this and other issues

Happy gene(ing)

Regards
Ken from Oz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Byram [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 June 2004 12:33 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [TMG] Variables not working in Footnotes FINAL
>
>
> Ken,
>
> > Sorry but I disagree.
> >
> > "It's by design. Footnotes are not processed as sentences".
> >
> > This is not what the documentation says (Help & User Guide).
> > I am told I can use Memos as footnotes.
> > I am also told I can use 'event tag variables' in Memos.
>
> The trouble is that the pieces don't come together like you would
> like. Help
> needs some serious revision in this area.
>
> I did some testing yesterday.
>
> First of all, TMG5 works exactly like TMG4 in regard to sentence variables
> in memos. That basically confirms my saying that this is by design.
>
> I also found that there are many limits to using sentence structures in
> memos. The structural parts (OR structures, conditionals) of sentence
> structures have a handful of difficulties when used in memos. You
> basically
> can't set the sentence to [M] and place a full sentence structure in the
> memo and get the expected outcome in a report. Many small details do not
> work correctly. I could not even ascertain that all sentence
> variables work
> in memos. Irregardless of what help or the documentation might
> imply, it was
> never intended that anyone do the things that you have attempted.
>
> TMG users have a habit of pushing the design limits and discovering things
> that can be done that were not intended as designed. Sometimes these
> experiments work and sometimes not. Sometimes a user commits considerable
> data to one of these boundary practices and the program changes
> and the user
> has to go back and fix all of his/her data.
>
> I can't wait until you start experimenting with name and place styles. <g>
>
> If you want to suggest a change in the program design or report a
> bug, send
> a message to Support. Provide an exact description of the issue with real
> examples.
>
>
> Jim
>
>
>
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