Footnotes and Quotes in Reports

[Morbius 0]

I have been using reports more often of late, and have been experiencing a difficulty, I am not sure how to deal with - specifically how TMG handles quotes in the memo field of a NOTES tag, when used with source citations.

 

In the MEMO field of a NOTES tag, I will have, in quotes, something like "John was big" with a cited reference (the quotation marks are also in the MEMO field). When generated into a report (an anhentafel report in this case), what I get out is "John was big.¹" with the footnote ("1") inside the closing quotation mark.

 

I haven't noticed a particular pattern, though it seems pretty consistent. It isn't a great problem, as I tend to do a lot of editing after the report is generated (I find it a good way to identify typos, inconsistencies, and research gaps).

 

The question. How can to modify things to that the footnote number is outside of the quotation marks?

[John Cardinal 0]

You could try this: add the period to the sentence yourself and then use TMG's [:NP:] code in the sentence to prevent TMG from adding the sentence-ending punctuation. If you do that, I think TMG will put the citation references after the ending quote. I have not tested this, however, so I may be wrong.

[Michael Hannah 0]

If you want to specifically place the period, John's idea will probably work. But if you would be satisfied with the output as:

 

"John was big".¹

 

then you could probably simply escape the trailing quote character in the memo like this:

 

"John was big\"

 

I also have not tested this, but believe this will work. This is typically how you get TMG to ignore the trailing character in a sentence when it does its end-of-sentence processing and automatic period and citation reference placement.

 

Hope this gives you further ideas,