Stewart, I've tried this out and changed it slightly so that the events in the 'Book Report' appear in chronological order. Adding a date to the Individual Event for 'Christening' deals with this. :-) So now, at the top of the list of 'Other Events' in the Individual Edit screen I have a christening item, accepting a date and a description. I have used the 'date only' field for this text: "At his christening %4 he was described as %6%3." and the 'no date or place' field for this text: "At his christening he was described as %6%3." Do I leave the other fields blank? (Using %1 or %2 gives He or She with a capital letter in the middle of the sentence. Am I being too fussy?) >> On standard reports you get two christening events reported (only when the >> description field has been used) - but with blank date and place for the >> second one that has the description. >> >> It seems clear to me that there are two Christening events separately >> identified within the coding - one a "system" event and one a "custom" event >> - but both accessing the same event definition - I hesitate to think what an >> exchanged gedcom file will make of this. I suspect that this will also happen with other similar events: birth, death etc., but I haven't tried it out - yet! Thanks again for your patience, Rosemary Stewart Millar wrote: > Rosemary, > > I agree - the Individual Edit screen looks ugly - but you will be the only > person to see that. > > However - proceeding with the work-around - If you go back to the edit of > the Individual Events for "Christening" - look at the text definitions that > the system uses for Male-Female - Unknown individuals --------- In a test I > did just for females, I put the following code into the first line (for no > date or place - which is the case for our Christening-Description event) > ---- > > At the christening %2 was described as "%6". > > This may not be the phrase you want - but change to adjust around the % > fields. > > On book reports, this now appears as a paragraph immediately following the > main paragraph for the main life-events - and looks quite reasonable. Also, > as far as I can see/test - it only appears when data has been entered into > the description field. > > On standard reports you get two christening events reported (only when the > description field has been used) - but with blank date and place for the > second one that has the description. > > It seems clear to me that there are two Christening events separately > identified within the coding - one a "system" event and one a "custom" event > - but both accessing the same event definition - I hesitate to think what an > exchanged gedcom file will make of this. > > The tagged note alternative - will not appear in the text of the book report > (as above) - but only within a Notes Appendix at the end of the report - not > as neat for what you want - but I would be quite happy with it. - But I am > all for flexibility :-) > > Good luck, > > Stewart