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I know I've seen this mentioned before, but for some reason I am not able to locate the posting.

I have a fact sentence defined as follows:

{individual} enlisted in the military {date} <in {_place}>. {individual} <served {=TextPart(GetLabelledText(%FACT.NOTE2%,"Served: "), 1, 0, TIDY)}>

In my note I have: Served: in Lord Dunmore's War.

The resulting sentence is: He enlisted in the military in October 1774. he served in Lord Dunmore's War.

I can't figure out how to make the second sentence start with a capital H. Is this an outstanding bug in FH? Is there a workaround? Have I coded it incorrectly?

Thanks,
Bill

Why not replace the ".<individual>" with the word "and" so it reads:

He enlisted in the military in October 1774 and served in Lord Dunmore's War.

{individual} enlisted in the military {date} <in {_place}> and <served {=TextPart(GetLabelledText(%FACT.NOTE2%,"Served: "), 1, 0, TIDY)}>

That looks like a bug that should be reported to CP.

BTW: The template relies upon that labelled note and if there is none then the 2nd sentence just says he resulting in:
He enlisted in the military in October 1774. he

I can think of two workarounds:

1. Remove the period and replace 2nd {individual} with and similar to laz_gen but also move the opening <
   {individual} enlisted in the military {date} {place}< and served {=TextPart(GetLabelledText(%FACT.NOTE2%,"Served: "), 1, 0, TIDY)}>
   *
2. Replace 2nd {individual} with {=Sex(%CUR_PRIN%,"He","She","They")} and use =CombineText(...) function:
   {individual} enlisted in the military {date} {place}. {=CombineText(Sex(%CUR_PRIN%,"He served ","She served ","They served "), TextPart(GetLabelledText(%FACT.NOTE2%,"Served: "), 1, 0, TIDY),)}

Note that <in {_place}> is replaced by {place} that automatically inserts the prefix in when there is a Place.

laz_gen wrote: ↑

09 Mar 2023 10:36

Why not replace the ".<individual>" with the word "and" so it reads:

He enlisted in the military in October 1774 and served in Lord Dunmore's War.

{individual} enlisted in the military {date} <in {_place}> and <served {=TextPart(GetLabelledText(%FACT.NOTE2%,"Served: "), 1, 0, TIDY)}>

That's a good idea. I'll give that a try.

Thanks,
Bill

tatewise wrote: ↑

09 Mar 2023 10:50

BTW: The template relies upon that labelled note and if there is none then the 2nd sentence just says he resulting in:
He enlisted in the military in October 1774. he

I missed that. For now I will go with using "and" in the sentence as laz_gen suggested along with your modification to fix the problem if I have no labelled note. I will report the bug to CP.

Thanks,
Bill

Mike and laz_gen,

Thanks for your help. I have decided to change my sentence a bit. Now I have:

{individual} enlisted in the military {date} {place}. <{=TextPart(GetLabelledText(%FACT.NOTE2%,"Service: "), 1, 0, TIDY)}>

Now I am using the label "Service:" in my note. This allows me to have as many sentences as I want which allows me more flexibility in my sentences.

I opened a ticket with CP (#202831). They replied "I have logged it and it will be passed to the developers for evaluation.
".

Thanks,
Bill

In that case, I don't think you need the < chevrons > around the function.

Can you explain why you need =TextPart( ... , 1, 0, TIDY) as all that does is remove adjacent commas and spaces.

I probably don't. I just copied it from another sentence definition that had it.

Bill