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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Bad Tag Sentences was [Individual Narrative issues]
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:15:52 -0500
References: <4.2.0.58.20050117093637.00c9bcb0@pop.well.com>


kathryn gratop wrote:

> This is most likely old news for most but some of the default
> sentences seem to be awkward for the narrative. For burial date, it
> says "burial date" and and since I do not have the exact burial date
> (only year) it mentions burial before death. For education it says
> "she was grammar school at Old Orchard".

Your Tags may be custom tag from importing.

The sentence for the standard Burial Tag is:
[P] <was|and [PO] were> buried <[D]> <in [L]> <[M]>. Since for most of
the burials I have I do not have a date, I have removed the <[D]> from
the burial tag. when I make a Burial Tag from a Death I just copy the
death date, home, add an aft and continue with location.

I created a Burial Date Tag for when I do have a burial date either with
or without a death date.

You can just copy the sentence from this message and paste over the
sentence you now have.

> Secondly, should I expect most sentences to be odd and require
> editing? Is there a way to get the burial to come after the death in
> the narrative if I don't have the complete date?


If you only know the death date, I would not put in a burial year.
Enter only a sort date of "after death date" or make two tags as I
have. If you are entering a number of deaths and burials my system is
easier.

The standard Education Tag is: [P] attended <[L]> <[D]>. Again replace
your sentence with this. "grammar school"l goes in the detail and Old
Orchard in the city.

> Most importantly, for those still living, and the living tag is
> correct, the narrative clearly states "she died".

> So my first question is how do I get the narrative to stop killing me
> off before my time?


It looks to me that you either imported a Death Tag or had TMG create
one from the settings in your old program.

You can find these tags wtth a List of People filtered for Death Tag
exists and Living Flag = Y.

bob gillis

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