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From: Chris Sackett <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] born - at England
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:27:47 +0100
References: <20066193850.769867@Terry3>
In-Reply-To: <20066193850.769867@Terry3>


Terry Reigel wrote:

> 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."

Terry,

A snag with using place fields for prepositions is that they appear as
part of the hyperlinked place in Second Site, so you get "five miles
south of Timbuktoo" all underlined as a link. I do think it would be a
significant improvement if TMG provided a field specifically for place
prepositions. Failing that, the best way seems to be to use the tag
sentence. For events used most often, such as bmdb, I use roles to
define "in" or "at" sentences. For any other preposition, I make the
change at tag level.

Chris

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