* Fact definitions & unwanted carriage returns

[wulliam]

Hi.

I'm trying to tidy up some of my hastily constructed facts from a few years ago, and have hit a snag that I can't get to the bottom of.

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As you can see the Sentence is picking up all of the elements but leaving carriage returns in strange places, highlighted by the red blocks. Also the 'in' prior to the date is capitalised.

Can someone tell me where I'm going wrong with these two issues?

Many thanks!

[tatewise]

The newline is caused by a newline at the end of the local Note on that fact.

However, the capital I possibly preceded by a fullstop is a strange 'feature' of using the {note} code.
I think it must be a bug that should be reported to CP via http://www.calico-pie.com/osticket/open.php

What is very strange is that the Sentence shown in the Facts tab differs from the sentence in the Narrative report.
That is very odd. I've never seen that before.

If you replace {note} with {%FACT.NOTE2%} then it may cure the problem but is unsuitable if the Note text is very long.

[wulliam]

Thanks Mike - have reported it as you suggest...I simply pointed them to this thread so they should see the comment below as well.

I've also replaced {note} with {%FACT.NOTE2%} and now have this, which is an improvement, although there still seems to be a leading space before "in November 1850". The contents of the note then reappear unattached to anything.

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[tatewise]

You must be careful about space characters in the Sentence Template and the Note text.
The Template has a space between {%FACT.NOTE2%} and {date} so the Note text must not end with a space.
However, if there is no Note text, the space between victims and {%FACT.NOTE2%} and {%FACT.NOTE2%} and {date} will produce two adjacent spaces.
One solution is to use ... victims< {%FACT.NOTE2%}> {date}. so that the first space is conditional on the Note text.

The duplicated Note text is a side-effect of using {%FACT.NOTE2%} instead of {note}.
The Report > Options > Main tab has Inc. Event/Attr Notes ticked by default.
It recognises when {note} is in the Sentence Template and avoids duplicating the Note.
But it does not recognise {%FACT.NOTE2%} in the same way, so you must untick the Inc. Event/Attr Notes option.
Hopefully, you don't need Notes to be included by that option. If you do then there is no simple solution.

[wulliam]

Thanks very much, Mike - that has solved the issues nicely.