Also works for were/was. Absolutely too coincidental for words. Minutes before receiving Wendy's email I was searching the Archives for 'were versus was' plural/singular useage and couldn't find what I was looking for. Wendy's discovery worked perfectly with a small adaptation. My Event definition now states: "[CoupleFirstNames] [::were::was] mentioned in correspondence...". If applied to a married couple it reads: "Mary and Jim were mentioned in correspondence...". If applied to an individual it reads: "Mary was mentioned in correspondence...".
Thank you Wendy for the MOST timely tip. :D Gary On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Wendy Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
