tatewise wrote: ↑10 Nov 2022 17:28
... I was referring to the bug that displayed the punctuation and spaces around {note} differently and has now been fixed. It was discussed at length in the forums but cannot find it now. ...
Strangely I couldn't find that thread either and nor could Helen - assuming that we're talking about the same thread.
What I
did find in my own correspondence was an issue with narrative sentences where the sentence shown on the Fact tab was constructed correctly, whereas by the time it was in the narrative report, it wasn't. This was in June 2021 and I'd raised a call with CP. It
may be another instance similar to the punctuation and spaces around {note} - if it is, then that's why I think {note}
may have been an innocent victim of an issue elsewhere.
What had happened was that I had a narrative sentence
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<para>{individual} lived< at {address}>< {place}>< with {other=resident}>< {date}>.
Notice that I was explicitly handling all the spaces within angle brackets, as we had to do at one time to avoid multiple spare spaces if items were empty. Or at least, I'm certain in my own mind that we did.
That displayed fine in the sentence shown on the Fact tab, whereas by the time it was in the narrative report, it didn't. The mails have a title of
Missing Space in Narrative Report for Residence, which may indicate the issue. (As an aside, this is why I said "the sentence box has always been different" - though "always" may be an exaggeration).
What Martin (from CP) said was (inter alia):
The reason the space problem happens is that you are trying to manage spaces between expressions in the sentence template. Family Historian expects to handle this for you. Consequently there is a tension between what you are trying to do and what Family Historian is trying to do.
His recommendation was the simpler
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<para>{individual} lived <at {address}> {place} <with {other=resident}> {date}.
This excludes spaces inside angle brackets and it works but I've not converted other narrative sentences unless I've been working in them and I've not
noticed any other issues (i.e. there may be other spacing issues that I've not picked up on).
To summarise:
1. This illustrates another difference between the sentence in the Fact tab and that in the Narrative Report.
2. It also
suggests to me that there is complex post-processing done after the basic construction of the Narrative sentence in the Report, i.e. {note} issues may just have been side effects, rather than an explicit change to {note} processing.
Maybe.
tatewise wrote: ↑10 Nov 2022 17:28
... The fact there has been so mich discussion about various options and formats leads me to suspect the story has not ended yet
That I would agree with...
