I'm trying to work out a way of formatting the Sentence Structure of a certain custom event so that when I have multiple events of the same type within a very short period of time, the sentences read nicely.
My event name is "Newspaper Article", and for these events I am inserting the Article's title as Description, the date it was published in Date, and the Newspaper's name as Place. I am also including a transcription of the first few sentences in the Notes field where possible. Because I will always have all of the main fields filled, I have set up my sentence definition to read An article appeared in the newspaper «i»[place]«/i» [ondate], titled "[desc]". [:IF[notes]::The article starts "[notes]"::][Sources] I don't have an issue with the sentence when I only have one newspaper article before I then have other events, but when I have three or more in a row, it gets a bit monotonous with every sentence starting the same way, especially when I haven't yet included any transcription in the notes. By way of example, I have a person who was unfortunately killed in a workplace accident, and his death made it into at least a dozen newspapers within just one or two days, and I want to record each of them. Ideally, I'd like to be able to have the start of the sentence alternate between two or three different definitions, giving sentence starts such as "An article appeared in...", "Another article appeared in...", and "An article also appeared in..." How can I make this alternating sentence structure happen - or is it not possible? Thanks Kathy Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
