* Individual Narrative Report question

[BillH]

I have a question about the individual narrative report.

Usually, in the paragraph for a child of the family, a particular child will have his/her name listed in the first sentence and then the word he or she will be used for subsequent sentences. This is happening for all of the children of one of my families, except for one child. For his paragraph, the first sentence has his name, then it switches back and forth between using his name and using "he" or "his".

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At first I thought it was because the census sentence was wrong in some way and insisted on using the name, but other children of the same family work as expected with the census sentence using "he" rather than the name.

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Any ideas what is going on?

Thanks,
Bill

[tatewise]

The other condition is that they are all preceded by an Occupation sentence, but that still does not really explain why it is happening.

[BillH]

Mike,

I think that is what is causing it for some reason. As soon as I added an occupation for Adam Stephen Henshaw (the third screenshot), it messed up the subsequent sentence as well. I ran the report for some other individuals and the same thing happened. Everytime there was an occupation sentence, the subsequent sentence reverted to using the name rather than "he"/"she" or "his"/"hers".

I'll report this to Calico Pie.

Thanks,
Bill

[AdrianBruce]

... I'll report this to Calico Pie. ...

I have to say I always thought there was a bit of variance deliberately built in - no carbon-based life-form would ever write a paragraph with a single name at the front and all pronouns following!

Adrian

[tatewise]

Bill, do your sentence Templates all have Installation Settings?
If not, then let Calico Pie know what they are, and also see what happens when they do have Installation Settings.

[BillH]

Most of my templates have been modified. However, my census template is set to the installation default. My occupation sentence template has been modfied and now reads:

{date} {his/her} occupation was given as {value} <at {address}> {place} {age}

If I revert to the installation settings for the occupation template, the problem goes away. So it appears that it is the occupation template that causes the problem. I'm not sure why. The help says:

His/Her
Code: {his/her}

Will be replaced by ‘his’ or ‘her’, depending on the sex of the individual

Based on that I"m not sure how the name is getting used in the subsequent census sentence.

Bill

[tatewise]

That is the cause of the problem.
The explicit {his/her} breaks the name chain.
Use {individual's} instead.

[BillH]

Mike,

That did fix the problem. I didn't realize the "name chain" could get broken like that. I'll let Calico Pie know that the problem was on my end.

Thanks,
Bill