* source template - unexpected results

[BevSmallwood]

Hi all - brand new person/user on the 30 day trial (RootsMagic7 user)

I am trying to build a source template like the one I use in RM and got some really weird results with placement of spaces and punctuation.

"{dbName}", <{dbType}|database>, <i><{Website}|Ancestry.com></i> (<{itemURL}|{URL}> : accessed {AccessDate}) <{ItemOfInterest}><; citing {citing}>.

" New York, New York, U.S., Index to Birth Certificates, 1866-1909 ", database, Ancestry.com( https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse ... =1169648[b]: [/b]accessed 19 January 2021 ) Walter Seigfred Gunnarson, 30 May 1908 Brooklyn, New York City, Kings, New York ; citing New York City Department of Records & Information Services. New York City Birth Certificates.

How do I get " marks without extra space around the {dbName}?
How do I get a space between <{Website}|Ancestry.com></i> and the ( ?
How do I get the colon in the url expression to have a space on either side of it?
and lastly
<{ItemOfInterest}><; citing {citing}>.
I've played with several iterations of this. I want the item of interest if it exists and the citing if it exists, If they are both present, separate with semicolon and a space. If only one exists, end with a period.

Thank you for your time and patience
Bev

EDIT TO ADD
I changed the TITLE style to double quotes which solved one of the problems.

Next fix: added spaces in the conditional brackets to provide space before the (
<{Website} |Ancestry.com >
and put the space:space inside conditional brackets thus
<: accessed {AccessDate}>

so I'm STILL trying to work out how to put () around the phrase without padding them with spaces

[BevSmallwood]

So you can see that the parens and semicolon are hanging out in space in the Footnote.

[BevSmallwood]

SOLVED:

{dbName:TITLE}, <{dbType}|database>, <i><{Website} |Ancestry.com ></i><(<{itemURL}|{URL}><: accessed {AccessDate}>)><<{ItemOfInterest}>;< citing {citing}>>.

I was able to tame the stray spaces by putting conditional brackets around the expressions.

{dbName:TITLE},
<{dbType}|database>,
<i><{Website} |Ancestry.com ></i>
<(<{itemURL}|{URL}><: accessed {AccessDate}>)>
<<{ItemOfInterest}>;< citing {citing}>>.

[Kai Chandler]

Good to see how you had a problem and then resolved it!

If it makes for a more streamlined workflow, you might find my Freeform Source Citation Template B of interest as it would allow you to copy and paste your RM templates into FH7, with the database name in italics.