Jim--
Sorry--I didn't mean to unlease a landslide on the subject. I use the
"surety level" code to designate "possible," etc., rather than to
include that within the place name. One of the reasons that I don't
like to add unnecessary words--whether prepositions or adjectives or
anything else--before place names is that when I travel around I like to
be able to produce all records from a given city, county, etc. Of
course it's not impossible to run several lists, but I think it would be
easier to just have everything in one list. I guess there is no perfect
solution that fits everyone's needs.
Dan Wollam
Port Hadlock, WA
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Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 3:21 PM
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Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Location Prepositions
In my Master Location List I have many locations that start with
"possibly.' This is not a preposition, but an adjective. It does create
problem for finding locations. "Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia" is sorted
in the Y's, but "possibly Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia" is sorted in the
P's.
Thanks,
Jim Terry
Millennia Technical Support
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
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Macdonald
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 11:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location Prepositions
If I understand you, Larry, the master location list won't be nice. Not
if "Anytown" and "near Anytown" are alphabetized under A and N
respectively. --Beth
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Sent: 31. juli 2001 07:28
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location Prepositions
> This good idea stimulates another. The box for "in" could just be
blanked out for those
> special cases where it did not apply and the desired preposition
entered as the first word
> in the place field. That is consistent with what users are doing
now, but they do not
> have the ability to blank out the "in," which your box suggestion
would allow.
>
> Or, the preferred preposition could be entered in the "in" box field
as you suggest,
> whichever is best for programmers and the system integrity. The
program would not have to
> search for a list of approved preposition, just allow "in" to be
changed or blanked out,
> which ever works best. Larry
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "N. B. Macdonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 5:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location Prepositions
>
>
> LOCATION PREPOSITIONS:
>
> Ideally, just before the line where one enters the location, there
> should be a little drop down menu of prepositions. For example,
'in'
> as default, plus a choice of 'on', 'near', 'of', 'at' and none at
all.
>
> (Even better, the user should be able to set which of these to use
as
> default. Probably 'at' in UK?)
>
> Otherwise, our lists of locations will be alphabetized some by place
> name, some by preposition. The place "at sea" we will probably want
> to write thus, and no additional preposition is needed.
>
> Hope this won't be too much more difficult than your suggestion,
Dave.
>
> --Beth
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Berdan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: 30. juli 2001 17:24
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location Prepositions
>
>
> > I will have Legacy look for "near" and "of" and any others I can
> think of (or that you users come up with) and not put "in" in front
of
> it when constructing a sentence.
> >
> > Dave Berdan
> > Millennia
> >
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