On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:58:04 +0100, you wrote: >Sheelagh, > >before you accuse people of twisting words, please make sure of your facts. > >>However in the meantime, we should be doing >> exactly what the golden rule says TYPING WHAT WE SEE - therefore that >> includes the PERIOD. > >Does this include the seperator dots? and the commas after the Christian >name? and have you transcribed the period in all of your transcriptions? No, it doesn't include separator dots and commas, because there is a project wide policy of omitting them as being field separators. There is no project wide policy of omitting a period following a forename. We are reviewing whether to relax that rule to allow for the difficulties encountered in discerning this character in some cases, and to deal with a large number of incorrect files cause by well-meant but incorrect advice in this respect. -- Dave Mayall