Sherry, I fully understand your priority of placing convenience (under the disguise of standardisation) before correctly entering the data.
In the example which I gave leading commas are not relevant. England is treated as a country (correct), Tameside/Lanarkshire as a state (rubbish - we don't have them) and Ashton-under-Lyne as a county (more rubbish - it's a town). Inserting commas somewhere in the middle would be equally wrong, nothing is missing, nor are there any in the location. Sorry, I prefer to be accurate. To me the name is important not the commas. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Sherry/Support <[email protected]> wrote: >Yes, Ron, that's what I've been saying. It certainly might not be quite >correct, but it works! > >If you put a comma in the front then you can remove leading commas when you >create reports or webpages > >You can do whatever you want! I'm just saying..... if you're going to use >the Master Location List features I've been discussing, you need to have >Legacy formatted in the manner that it was programmed for. Since I like to >sort and expand/contract, it's easier for me to have the locations >formatted consistently. > >If you don't use those features, it doesn't matter....... > >And I do have a lot of international locations in my file - England, >Germany, France, Netherlands, Australia.... > >To me, the name is important, not where my comma placement is! > >Sincerely, >Sherry >Technical Support >Legacy Family Tree > > >On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Ron Ferguson ><[email protected]>wrote: > >> Sherry, >> >> I said in a previous post that expand/contract would not work unless the >> four field convention is used. >> >> I do not know Albert Park, Victoria, Australia, but it has been said that >> they largely have only 3 fields, and if that location is the full one, then >> what would you do - stick some commas in to make it incorrect? >> >> Coming to England, what would you do with the correct Ashton-under-Lyne, >> Tameside, England, the current location, - historically Ashton-under-Lyne, >> Lancashire. England? Whatever you do will give an incorrect location, and I >> will not have errors in my locations, nor look like an ignoramus in >> reports/webpages. >> >> The choice is with the user. I have made mine, accuracy first. >> >> Ron Ferguson >> http://www.fergys.co.uk/ >> > > > >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 >Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on >our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). >To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
