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I have no idea.  What version of GenoPro are using?  I know it should not change mutch, as the date formatting code was written prior v2.0.0.0, however this could give some hints.  On my machine, the date formatting appear to work fine.

Edited: Monday, May 21, 2007 by GenoProSupport

[|around |before |after ]MMM yyyy produces around Dec 2006
[|around |before |after ]'MMM' yyyy produces around MMM 2006
[|around |before |after ]"MMM" yyyy produces around MMM 2006
[|around |before |after ]'"'yyyy produces around "2006
[|around |before |after ]"'"yyyy produces around '2006
[|'around' |before |after ]yyyy produces 'around' 2006
[|"around" |before |after ]yyyy produces "around" 2006
[|around |before |after ]yyyy'D' produces around 2006D
[|around |before |after ]yyyy'd' produces around 2006d
[|around |before |after ]yyyy"D" produces around 2006D
[|around |before |after ]yyyy"d" produces around 2006d

Using the following template

I got the following

It would appear that in any Date Format Pharase that involves just Year & Month the GenoPro code removes any occurrence of the letter 'd' from it!

So if I have 

I get the report fragment  Bill attended a school full time from about Mar 1895

But if instead I have: 

I get the report fragment  Bill attended a school full time from arounMar 1895 i.e. the 'd' in 'around' and the following space has been removed by GenoPro Report Generator.

This effect seems to occur with any 'd' anywhere in the format string.

This bug will obviously effect language translation to French as well as Spanish and perhaps others too.

As well as the letter 'd' in the approximation strings it should also allow 'd' in quoted strings e.g. MMMM "de" yyyy

As you say, you should be able to put any extra text, including the letter d, in quotation marks or apostrophes and indeed this works for FmtYMD and FmtY. The Dictionary contains the comment, from Dan: GenoPro uses the standard date formatting options from the .NET framework. and so I presume the format allowed is as per http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx.

Is there any way to use the letter "d" in the tag <FmtYM>  of the <FmtDateNarrative> secction?, as EDilena noticed, in the other tags of the same secction its possible by adding quotation marks, but in <FmtYM>  tag it doesn't work.

Here is a sample of the translation:

<FmtDateNarrative>
        <!-- Templates to format narrative dates -->
        <FmtYMD>&#32;[el|aproximadamente el|antes del|después del] D "de" MMMM "de" yyyy</FmtYMD> <!-- He was born on January 31st, 2006 --> OK
        <FmtYM>&#32;[en|más o menos por el mes de|antes del mes de|después del mes de] MMMM "de" yyyy</FmtYM> <!-- He was born in January 2006 --> ERROR
        <FmtY>&#32;[en|más o menos por el año de|antes del año de|después del año de] yyyy</FmtY> <!-- He was born in 2006 --> OK
        <FmtMD>&#32;[el|aprox. el|antes del|después del] D "de" MMMM</FmtMD> <!-- He was born on January 31st --> OK
</FmtDateNarrative>

I also tried with Decimal Character Codes in HTML Unicode, but it doesn't work too,

 Any suggestion??

Thanks,

Hugo.

Yes, there is a problem with the translation of the tag (I didn't notice it before becuse in the translation I did, the whole prhase simply disappear), there is currently noway to add the letter "d" for translation in  <FmtDateNarrative>
        <FmtYM>&#32;[in|about|before|after] MMMM yyyy</FmtYM> <!-- He was born in January 2006 -->

maybe Ron can help us with this issue. 

PS. EDilena, May I suggest you to use English on the elaboration of your questions. By this way, the users who do not speak Spanish (and also the the support team) could understand the question.

Hugo.