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From: Karla Huebner <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Another Death Role
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 09:25:54 +0100
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Glad to be of help. I try to make my sentence structures as flexible
as possible so that my output sounds varied and natural--one of the
first things I did after getting TMG was to add <[M]> to most of the
sentences--but now that we have M1-9 and WM, we can really craft
versatile global sentence structures. I should go back in and work on
some of what I've already got in order to get the benefit of this.

I'm also thinking that the more we can use the same role in various
ways, the more practical it will be to filter by role. In other
words, I do use roles to get different wordings for the same kind of
thing (include or exclude date, etc.), but that does make it more
complex to search for people who have the same participatory role but
different TMG roles. In other words, if you have several different
roles for the person who's buried (in order to get different
wording), you'd have to search for all the roles involved to get all
the buried people (though in that example I guess you could search
just for Principals).

Karla Huebner

At 07:16 PM 11/4/2005, you wrote:
>
>I really like this one, Karla. I like the versatility of the output, and the
>way that it emulates custom sentence construction. Clarifies for me the true
>value of the witness memo, as well. I think I'll use this as inspiration to
>try to create a few of my own experimental witness sentences for things I've
>been toying with, like census enumerations, 2nd marriages, etc.
>
>Thanks very much for sharing!
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>DeAnna Burghart
>TMG Shortcuts, Variables and Report Cheat Sheets (Word and PDF)
>http://members.cox.net/danieleb765/genealogy/
>


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