I want to capture info about e.g. birth and death places, burial location etc. But my sources are fragmentary and in differing sequences and completeness.
As a result, the narrative “Sentence” that RM constructs is often garbage. I don’t need or want these Sentences, and can’t possibly spend the time to customize them to read all the data correctly.
And I can’t blank the Sentence even by deleting all its template language via “Customize”. That at least should work. Nor can I set a default template simple enough to always work.
So I have this block of broken language in my Edit Person display. I find nothing in the Help or previous threads on this.
==> Please give us a program Setting to disable the narrative Sentences.
Or at least let me customize them to “blank”, or let me define the program default template.
The Sentence structure can fail when Place and Place Details have more than one location in them. I manually fixed the cases where that was happening to me by a trial-and-error combination of rewording my data and moving terms around in the template.
That was a waste of my time since I don’t need the Sentence for anything to begin with.
They are used only in narrative reports; do you need them?
If not, you can edit each entry in the Fact Type list to delete the sentence template. If you customised some at the individual Fact/Event level, you could delete them anytime you come across them. While the narrative report will show a message “Need to define sentence” for every instance, you don’t care. I don’t recall if the Edit Person screen does. If it does, at least it’s short and less distracting. And I think you can slide the divider between the event details and the sentence preview down to disappear the sentence preview.