I saw this earlier, decided I hadn't enough caffeine to make sense of it and went on.
Evidently I'm still short on caffeine. But you did get through to the list, twice. Cheryl Ron Taylor wrote: > I posted this last Sunday but it did not show up so here it > is again. Hope it goes out this time. > > The "Preposition_English.lst" file is not being copied from > Legacy version 7.5 when updating to version 8.x. If you have > made changes to it in version 7, you will want to copy that > modified file into the new place where it is stored for > Legacy 8 which is "C:\Users\username\Documents\Legacy Family > Tree\_AppData\Misc\Preposition_English.lst" where "username" > is the name of your Windows login account. If you are still > on Windows XP then instead of "Users" it will have > "Documents and Settings". > > Help>Help Index>Search>Preposition>Prepositions on Locations > provides some documentation on this feature. > > I added "Prob " and "Probably " to the list of prepositions > because they work similar to the other entries in the file > when viewing the Master Locations List. (Note the trailing > space) > > Each preposition in the file should have a space after it. > The line for "Under " actually contains 2 spaces after it in > the file installed by Legacy and therefore that preposition > will not work as expected unless an entry in the Master > Locations List actually has 2 spaces after it. Each > preposition including trailing spaces must be an exact match > to be detected by the "Remove common prepositions from > locations" function in the Sort Location List. The Help > button on that tool also describes how prepositions affect > the display of locations. > > A couple of other prepositions that I added to the list are > "Of , " and "Of, " (Note the included comma and the trailing > space). There are likely other prepositions that you may > wish to customize. The sort routine takes into account any > exact match of these prepositions and sorts the locations as > though the preposition was not present but then appends the > preposition to the end of the sorted location when it is > displayed. This results in all locations with the same > spelling being displayed together. Similar logic for the > sort can be used if the "Remove leading bracket from > <bracketed> locations" so that they too will be sorted as if > the brackets were not present. 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
