Hi Folks, Rosemary sent a message and quoted a message from Stewart (see it below), but I never received this message of his, from the list. Was it sent privately or did it get lost or what? Valerie ---------------------------------------------------- >> 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