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By denisea3465 - Monday, February 5, 2007
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I have been very busy organizing all of my "Places and Locations" and noticed that the Narrative Prefix "Automatic" really just seems to mean it translates everything to "in" (i.e. ...in 1814 E Street) no matter what the Place Category is. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that, at least in English, the Automatic could be programmed to pick the proper preposition depending on the category to at least be correct more often than it is now. What I mean is, rather than "Automatic" to always mean "in", it could be programmed this way: If "Automatic" is selected, it then looks to the Place Category, and if there is a Place Category chosen, it picks the most appropriate preposition for that Category. How does it know? Well, simply: if Cemetery, then "at the" if Church, then "at the" if City, then "in" if Country, then "in" if Domicile, then "at" if Factory, then "at" if Town, then "in" ...and so on. Could this be programmed, choosing a preposition that is usually correct for each type in the Place Category? It isn't altogether necessary, since the choices are all there in the drop-down, but it seems a bit silly to have "Automatic" if it doesn't change anything... why then not just have it default to "in"? Just an idea that would save a tiny bit of time when creating Places and Locations.
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