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From: "Linda Lambert" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] born - at England
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 06:50:27 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20066193850.769867@Terry3>


Thanks, Terry......for your explicit and concise explanation. I guess I'm
kind of slow on some things, but this finally makes sense to me. I can
easily adapt to your method, so I'm going to do things your way from now on.
It's amazing what can be done when I finally understand <grin>

Ok, Bob.....if you're listening, this is not on my list anymore!!!!!!!

Linda (in Arizona)

-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Reigel [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 6:39 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] born - at England

On Wed, 31 May 2006 20:19:29 -0700, Karenhappuch wrote:
> Delighted prepositions are not part of the MPL. Some of us don't
> think that is the place for prepostions and don't want the MPL
> cluttered with them. Also many users either don't use or seldom use
> place styles. What it the problem with just adding the preposition <in
> [COUNTRY]> to that sentence?

I'm with Barbara on this one. I'll have to admit that I was startled some
time back to learn from discussion on this list that there was a big problem
with place prepositions - I'd never found an issue there.
<g>

Most of my tag types have a default sentence with the place variable of
<[L]>. I set my narrative reports to use "in," which I find works for the
majority of cases. If I need "at" for a particular tag, I edit the sentence
so the place variable is <at [L]>. Seems to me that "in"
or "at" is part of the report formatting, and not data, so does not belong
in the data fields.

When I need a different modifier - "near," "south of," "five miles from" or
the like - I do regard that as part of the data and enter it in the place
fields. I then change the place variable in the sentence to < [L]> (note
space between the opening conditional bracket and
variable) to suppress the automatic "in."

All this is not to say that some better tool for managing place prepositions
couldn't be developed, but only to say that for me, the current tools work
fine. "Fixing" the place preposition issue is way, way, down on my personal
list of enhancement priorities. <g>

Terry Reigel


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