chasco 0 Report post Posted January 20, 2011 Is there any way to force TMG to start a sentence with b., d., or m.? Have tweaked TMG and gotten rid of the "He/she was born ... married ... died" sentences. Prefer just to say "b. date place", etc., but TMG starts each sentence with B., D., M. Have resorted to putting a hyphen in front and that seems to work: -b. date place. One other oddity. Have created a Note tag which has as its sentence Source: (that is, Source-colon), but for some reason in reports, it always comes out as Source; (Source semi-colon). Colons do show up correctly elsewhere if used in any text after the "Source;" So any idea of what the problem is here? Thanks for any help. Oh, and I wish there were a way to send queries to the TMG-Roots list without subscribing to it. I like to browse through it once or twice a week, but it is way too busy to get even in digest form, I think. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Hannah 0 Report post Posted January 20, 2011 Hi, It would help to know what report you are using where you want a "sentence" to start with a lowercase character, or are using the Note with the "Source:" text. There are probably ways to do what you want, but it would help to know the specifics. This Forum is officially sponsored by WhollyGenes. As for the TMG-Roots list, that is run strictly by users for users. I am not sure, but I believe the rules requiring subscription to send queries are common for all "rootsweb.ancestry.com" lists, as that helps prevent spammers from sending junk messages to a list. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ggilbert1 0 Report post Posted January 20, 2011 You might try escaping the colon Source\: and see what happens I use RSS Really Simple Syndication to read many Rootsweb Lists, however like Michael I also believe you have to be subscribed to post. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chasco 0 Report post Posted January 22, 2011 You might try escaping the colon Source\: and see what happensI use RSS Really Simple Syndication to read many Rootsweb Lists, however like Michael I also believe you have to be subscribed to post. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chasco 0 Report post Posted January 22, 2011 Hi, Individual Narrative and Journal reports are the two I've been fiddling around with. Guess I will stick with -b., -d., -m. If worse comes to worst and I ever really print anything permanent out, can use a word processor to strip out the "-". As regards the Source-colon problem, even tried using two hyphens (Source--), but still end up with "Source--;" as a result. Strange. Guess I could also simply type in "Source:" each time I add something to the Note tag and omit it from the sentence. Thanks to you both for your advice and time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ggilbert1 0 Report post Posted January 22, 2011 Sorry I didn't notice this was posted in the v6 section, I think the backslash escape was introduced in v7. BTW the problem with the : does not appear to exist in v7.04 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites