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From: "Kevin Sholder" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] ins, ats and ons
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:41:20 -0500
In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20050202025224.027ef928@pop.sprynet.com>


Yes, I know it's been around "forever," but I've not been a TMG user for but
almost 2 years in April. So you "old timers" have more experience with
this. <bg>

And yes, I'm not holding my breath either, but I can wait. If I need to go
back and "clean up" again for this I will.

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Darrell A. Martin [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 10:02 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [TMG] ins, ats and ons

At 01:36 AM 2/2/2005, Kevin Sholder wrote:
>Kathy / Larry,
>
>Yes, just the "glimmer" of hope is enough to let me wait a while
>longer. It obviously hasn't been a big issue for me yet, but I've been
>mulling this over a while now.
>
>Thank you for your time,
>Kevin L. Sholder

Hi, Kevin:

The "preposition problem" has been around "forever". It has been a very big
issue for me, and I have made suggestions about it from time to time. I
probably have invested over a hundred hours in creating and testing the two
preposition systems that I have used, and in data cleanup and modification
related to them.

Currently, I use a place style and a single-excluded code in the Temple
(L10) field to handle prepositions. My system avoids the danger of modifying
every occurrence of a place just because I changed the preposition in one
Tag. It works well in both TMG reports and Second Site output as far as I
can tell.

It would be a very pleasant surprise indeed if it became possible to specify
the preposition at the Tag level. I am not holding my breath. Further, I am
not sure now that the effort to switch and clean up yet again would be worth
it. Something would have to be broken for me to change, since my second,
current, system was created just late last year.

Darrell


Darrell A. Martin
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Illinois
http://www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/



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