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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Question on Name Tags and memos
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:36:47 -0500
In-Reply-To: <000c01c6279a$3640a190$8200a8c0@tritowncomputers.com>


On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:44:31 -0700, Matt Goodrich wrote:

> Say I have a source (a book) that says so and so married
> Margaret of Farmington, Connecticut.
> I would like that fact to be present in narrative output.
>
> I have tried using the memo field of the name tag and
> have told TMG to output name memos, and it does. However
> it puts the memo as a footnote.

Non-primary name tags output according to their Sentence Structure.
So, if you put the [M] variable in the sentence, it will be output
accordingly.

Primary name tags do not use sentences because that name is used only
by the report formatter (as the first appearance in the report
section) or by other tags.

For both primary name tags, and non-primary tags in which the memo
variable is not in the sentence, output of Memos is controlled by the
setting on the Memos tab of report options. In your case, it went in a
footnote because that's were you specified it to go. Other choices are
"none," "endnotes," "embedded," and "embedded with parentheses."

Likely none of these produce quite the output you would like. To get
that, you need to think about exactly where you want the phrase "of
Farmington, Connecticut" to appear.

If you put it in the primary name tag, as Teresa suggests, it will be
come part of the primary name for that person. As a result, it will
appear that way on the "name" line and in indexes.

If you want it to appear as part of the statement about their
marriage, I'd put it in the marriage tag. If you want it to appear in
his narrative, I'd create a separate tag for it, perhaps simply a note
tag with a memo of "was said to be of" and put the place in the place
field. You could of course create more detailed statements along these
lines.

Terry Reigel

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