On 1/19/18 8:44 PM, Brian Gross wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you, John and Robin, for the information about Location Variables. > > I have a related question about creating sentences with different entities > in [L4]. > > I've been entering entire phrases in [L4] like "Colfax County" or > "Plaquemine Parish" in order to have sentences like "Bill lived in [L]" read > "Bill lived in Clarkson, Colfax County, Nebraska" or "Bill lived in > "Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, Louisiana". (I don't want sentences that > read "Bill lived in Clarkson, Colfax, Nebraska".) > > In order to eliminate the descriptors "County" and "Parish" from [L4] I > modified the templates in the Master Style List to read " <[County] County, >> " or "<[Parish] Parish, >". This works fine as for sentences like "Bill > lived in [L]". Sentences that would use the labels independently need to > be written as "Bill lived in [L3], [L4] County, [L5]". > > Is there a side-effect to this approach that I might not have noticed? > > So, can anyone share how they handle things like counties and parishes? > (More generally, multiple entities stored in a single Location Variable.) > > Thanks for your help! > > Brian The major effect of having the word county added by the sentence template instead of being in the place record is that the word county won't appear when the location isn't processed as a sentence. This could be for GEDCOM export, or with Second Site when it build Geo-Coding for the place. It also means that you need to a different style for each distinct labeling that you need to use (think other countries). As to handling multiple entries in a single location variable, I generally try to avoid it. If an event seems to want multiple locations mentioned, it is likely one that I am custom building the full sentence, and I will put the extra places into the sentence in the memo, using a tag which shows most of the data with a [M]. I will sometimes split the tag into two tags for example to say that they move from on location to another, and use the sentence merging code to combine them into 1 apparent sentence. -- Richard Damon