| But you can make the sentence read however is appropriate. If you | go to the individual and edit the event you can do a sentence | override for that individual's event to make the tense read correctly. | | I also disagree that the past tense is always inappropriate for | living individuals. In my family at least my Father's occupation | changed at least 4 or five times over the course of his life. He | was a farmer from 1935 to 1949, A steam engineer in the oilfields | from 1949- 1962, a building plant manager at a series of | hospitals and residential schools from 1962 - 1979 and then a | stockroom clerk in an oilfield supply firm until he retired. Once | he had finished each of those occupations the past tense "He | worked as ..." was very appropriate. If Legacy were try to change | the tense for every case the Event definition itself would have | to have a start and end date and the programs would have to | include logic to check "today" against the end date or look for a | blank end date to determine the correct tense. |
Yes, I know you can make *individual* reports sentences read what you want, but a *living* person's *last* occupation etc should read correctly. Not necessary to change the tense of every occupation, only the last of the Living tag. -- Rodney HALL Heywood, Lancashire Suaviter sed fortiter Agreeably but powerfully ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rmhh.co.uk/ http://rmhh.org.uk/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
