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From: "John Cardinal" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Custom Tag - No Witness Sentence
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 10:16:02 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20050701031132.RDC19444.priv-edtnes46.telusplanet.net@VANNBLouise>


Louise Smith wrote:
> OK, nevermind. I see now that "--" are double-exclusion
> markers. Useful.

Louise,

You got it. Chapter 5 demonstrates a couple related techniques. One is
creating tags to hold details, like the text of a will, that you may or may
not want to print depending on how you are going to use the output. If you
put the text of the Will in the Will tag memo, you have to print the will
text or suppress memos entirely. That's not very flexible. The second idea
is to attach witnesses to tags but omit the tag from the narrative of the
witnesses. That's when you set the sentence to double-exclusion marks
("--").

Many people also use custom tags for exhibits. If you have a Marriage tag,
for example, you might want to attach a wedding photo to the Marriage tag
but you might also consider making a "Wedding Photo" tag and attaching the
wedding photo to that. That way, you can decide to include or exclude
certain types of exhibits by selecting which tag types to include or
exclude.

John

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