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From: "Prof. G. L. Esterson" <>
Subject: Re: Maximum number of letters in Tag-Type names
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 21:27:21 +0200
In-Reply-To: <200511302002.jAUK2dFD029092@lists5.rootsweb.com>


Lee, Terry, Teresa -- many thanks for your encouragement and advice.

On 11/30/2005 -0700, Terry wrote:
>1. Buy and install TMG6.
>
>2. When your start TMG6, there is a start-up screen with several
>buttons, one of which is for Import. Click that, and find your TMG4
>Data Set. Follow the prompts to complete the import. Note that your
>TMG4 data remains unchanged, so if you want to open it again in TMG4
>for any reason, you can.
>
>Your data should import without any difficulty. If you have accents
>set in TMG4, they may or may not automatically be imported, depending
>on the locations of your files.

Many thanks to Lee and Terry for the instructions on how to import my TMG
V4.0d data bases to TMG6. I had thought that I might have to go through
several steps of import (that is, first using TMG5, then TMG6) as was the
case earlier. But I see that *that* will not be necessary -- we can now
directly import to TMG6 from TMG4. That's great!

Of course, I will want to save the new TMG6 file in a new, separate folder
-- this would make the last TMG4 data base and the new TMG6 data base
available to me. I assume there is no problem in operating both versions
on one computer, since they are different?

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And Terry posted this:

"The issue of the length of Tag Type labels in TMG5/6 seems to come
down to this:

- In standard English(US) labels are limited to 20 characters.

- In all other languages, the labels can be any length, but only 30
characters display in the tag box, list of tag types, and probably
some other contexts.

I have no idea whether this will change, but I'd suggest not planning
on any changes.

Since I understand that you intend your work as a recommendation for
others to use, my recommendation is to stay with the 20 character
length that works in standard English(US) for the following reasons:

- I'd think you can probably get reasonable labels out of 20
characters.

- Seeing longer labels requires opening up the column widths on the
displays, which is a problem for users with lower resolution monitors."


Thanks Terry -- this is what I shall do -- 20 characters.
I am glad that we have cleared up the question about the maximum number of
characters in tag names -- it's 20 with US English. I think this will work
with my needs.

Thanks all, for your help.

Regards,

Jerry Esterson, Ra'anana, Israel

--
Professor G. L. Esterson, Ra'anana, Israel


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