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From: "Cheryl Freeman" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Custom Sentence Question
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 20:40:12 -0500
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Hi Patt,

I am just now getting caught up on reading, but I tried this about an hour
after I sent the message and am pleased with the result. I was trying so
hard to find a way to make just 1 sentence work that I had to step back and
realize there was no "downside" to having multiple sentences. So I have a
sentence for a head with no one living with him, a sentence for a head with
just one person living with him (...enumerated with [P] was...[WO]), and a
sentence for a head with multiple people living with him (...enumerated with
[P] were [WO]...)

Thanks,

Cheryl Freeman
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Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Custom Sentence Question


> In a message dated 6/1/2004 9:48:20 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> writes:
> The problem is that I have only one [WO]. When there are 2 or more [WO]
> names, the sentence works, but when there are only 2 people in the
household
> (Head and wife, Head and child, etc.) the sentence reads "Enumerated with
> John Smith WERE Mary Smith".
>
> To be clearer, what I am looking for is a variable so that the sentence
> would work with just one [WO] (Enumerated with John Smith WAS Mary Smith),
> or with two or more [WO] (Enumerated with John Smith WERE Mary Smith and
> Betty Smith). Is there a way to include a variable depending on the
number
> of [WO]?
> *********************************************
> Cheryl,
>
> I usually change mine on a case by case basis. But you could create a role
> for that instance.
>
> My Census head reads:
> [:CR:][:TAB:][PF] is head of household on the <[M3]> census <of [D]> <[L]>
> <as [M2].> <[M1]>. <Enumerated with him were [WO].> <[M4]>
> You could create a Role e.g. Head+1 that read
> [:CR:][:TAB:][PF] is head of household on the <[M3]> census <of [D]> <[L]>
> <as [M2].> <[M1]>. <Enumerated with him was [WO].> <[M4]>
>
> Then use that Role whenever there is only 1 witness
>
> Patt Ricketts
>
>
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