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From: Dean Scribner <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Individual Narrative issues
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:17:00 -0800


Lee Hoffman writes:
>As for the History Tag, there is a standard History Tag and the default
Sentence for Witnesses (there are NO Principals in a History Tag) is:
[W] witnessed [M] <[D]> <[L]>
which is different from what you have. I do not know where that came
from but it is not the default Sentence for a standard History Tag.<

I know there are no Principals in a History Tag, but in the Master Tag
Type List the only History Tag is shown as a Standard tag and the
Sentence is shown as:
[P] <was|and [PO] were> History <[D]> <[L]>
and the Witness Sentence is shown as:
[W] witnessed the History of [P] <and [PO]> <[D]> <[L]>
Not that it matters, because I can't imagine a suitable default Witness
Sentence for a History Tag, anyway, any more than I can imagine producing
an Individual Narrative report that reads:
"Tom Katt was born. He married. He died. He was buried. R.I.P."
My Individual Narrative subjects, being fertile, even have children;
some beget them; some bear them; and on occasion, some adopt them. And
they lead interesting lives in between BMDB events, all without editing a
single word outside TMG.
Dean

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