I was going to post to the list to ask how to do this, then found it in
the Help files and thought I'd share it here...
I wanted to create an event for eye colour, so I could track variations
through the family. Easily enough done, but once I'd finished setting
it up and entering the event for myself, I was left with:
Wendy had blue eyes.
Had? My eyes haven't changed colour recently! I wanted to be able to
set the sentence so that it varied according to whether the person was
still alive or not.
After a little digging around in the Help files ('cos I knew I'd seen it
somewhere but couldn't remember where!), I found what I was looking for
under "sentence for event" - there's lots of goodies there, worth taking
a look to see what you can do. The part I wanted says:
*Living or Dead*
This conditional field lets you vary wording depending on if the subject
person is living or not. The field format is:
*[::living words::non-living words]*
I literally copied that last line and pasted it into the sentence
definition, then highlighted each of the terms and replaced them with
the words of my choice. For my "Eyes" event, which has only a
description field (ie, no date or place), I've made my sentence definition:
[FirstName] [::has::had] [Desc] eyes. [Notes][Sources]
Now my own sentence reads:
Wendy has blue eyes.
For my late mother, it reads:
Margaret had blue eyes.
I think it's a pretty neat Legacy trick. :-)
Kind Regards,
Wendy Howard
--
Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand
http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wendyh65/
<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewendyh65/>
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