concatenating sentences from TMG

[harry.g...@gmail.com]

Hello John,

I was making an e-pub from my TMG project with GEDCOM Publisher, and noticed that the concatenating sentences of TMG are not working/honoured in Publisher.

I often use these concatenating sentences in TMG, example when a person is born and christened the same day.

Is this by "design" in Publisher or is it a bug?

Kind regards

Harry

[John Cardinal]

Harry,

 

Gedcom Publisher supports TMG’s “sentence continuations”. However, they only work in a narrative context. So, they work in the Narrative Panel Tag Set, or the Body Tag Set when the Format is set to Narration. Continuations will not work in any list or table/grid context as each tag in those Tag Sets gets its own row of output.

 

If that doesn’t explain what you are seeing, please describe the context in detail:

 

• What type of Tag Set
• If a Body-type Tag Set, what is the Format? (See thew Format section, and the Format property in it.)
• The TMG sentence structures used in the first tag and the second (continuation) tag.

 

John Cardinal

 

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[John Cardinal]

Harry,

 

Further to my last reply…

 

Here’s a screenshot showing two tags (death and burial) where the burial is a continuation. The tags are rendered by the Body Tag Set, and the Format is “Narration”, as you can see from the GP window in front of the calibre window used to browse the EPUB book:

 

 

The sentence structures are simple:

 

Death: [S] died <[D]><[L]>

Burial: [+] and was buried <[D]><[L]>

 

The person’s name is “Continuation Sentence” which can be confusing but my TMG test project has people whose names indicate what part of the TMG / GedSite feature set they are designed to test.

 

John Cardinal

 

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From: John Cardinal <jfcar...@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2026 11:15 AM
To: 'gp...@googlegroups.com' <gp...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: [GP] concatenating sentences from TMG

 

Harry,

 

Gedcom Publisher supports TMG’s “sentence continuations”. However, they only work in a narrative context. So, they work in the Narrative Panel Tag Set, or the Body Tag Set when the Format is set to Narration. Continuations will not work in any list or table/grid context as each tag in those Tag Sets gets its own row of output.

 

If that doesn’t explain what you are seeing, please describe the context in detail:

 

• What type of Tag Set
• If a Body-type Tag Set, what is the Format? (See thew Format section, and the Format property in it.)
• The TMG sentence structures used in the first tag and the second (continuation) tag.

 

John Cardinal

 

Products: ORA, GedSite, Gedcom Publisher, Second Site, TMG Utility, TMG to GEDCOM

Web Hosting for Genealogists: Family History Hosting

 

From: gp...@googlegroups.com <gp...@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of harry.g...@gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2026 9:42 AM
To: Gedcom Publisher <gp...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [GP] concatenating sentences from TMG

 

Hello John,

[Harry Benevicinus]

Hello John,

Sorry for the late answer but I am busy planning my vacation :-)

I tested the Birth and continued christening tags, in TMG it works ok, I did not change anything in your publisher. Following is an example of the text (I hope it comes ok because I copy and paste out of Calibre and the text is in Dutch.

Biografie
Petrus Somers werd geboren op 20 mei 1671 in Rumst, Antwerpen,<1> Hij huwde Joanna Cop, dochter van Quirrijn Cop en Magdalena Tayaerts, voor 1698 Rumst. Petrus Somers overleed na 1721 in Rumst, Antwerpen.

en drie dagen later gedoopt in de Sint-Pieterparochie, peter was Peter De Vos en meter was Anna De Smedt.<2>
Petrus Somers werd de peter op Petrus Kennis's doop op 11 november 1720 in de Sint-Pieterkerk Rumst.<3> Petrus Somers was getuige bij het huwelijk van Petrus Kennis en Elisabeth Somers op 1 januari 1720 Rumst.<4>

I think you will see the problem, the title in "Biography". The text starts with the birth sentence, followed by the marriage tag. Then the next paragraph (in red) is the continued christening tag. The continued sentence starts with "en" (Dutch for and), this continued sentence should appear after the birth sentence and "before" the marriage sentence.

Kind regards

Harry

Op do 8 jan 2026 om 17:15 schreef John Cardinal <jfcar...@gmail.com>:

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Kind regards
Harry

[John Cardinal]

Harry,

 

For a TMG sentence continuation to work, both tags must be in the same Tag Set. In your case, I think you have the “BMDB Only” and “Body” Tag Sets enabled, and the Birth tag is in the BMDB Only Tag Set while the Baptism is in the Body Tag Set. You can either disable the BMDB Only Tag Set or edit the BMDB Tag Set and allow Baptism tags to qualify for that Tag Set.

 

John Cardinal

 

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From: gp...@googlegroups.com <gp...@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Harry Benevicinus
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2026 9:20 AM
To: gp...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [GP] concatenating sentences from TMG

 

Hello John,

 

Sorry for the late answer but I am busy planning my vacation :-)