* Punctuation in reports

[woodr2011]

I tend to prefer traditional abbreviations, such as Vt. for Vermont, rather than VT. I am noticing however that the sentence structure of each fact tag includes periods, resulting in an extra period at the end of each sentence, such as:

Julius Smith, son of Asa Smith "2nd" (1786-1846) and Ede Bullard (1786-1826), was born on 10 May 1824 in Lunenburg, Essex, Vt.. He was baptised on 26 May 1824 in Lunenburg, Essex, Vt.. Rev. John Willard p.c. Julius married Phebe Pierce on 8 June 1846 in Lunenburg, Essex, Vt.. He died on 19 October 1863 in Lunenburg, Essex, Vt.. He was buried on 22 October 1863 in Lunenburg Cnr. Cem., Lunenburg, Essex, Vt..

Is there an option to correct this that wouldn't involve editing the sentence structure of every fact?

[tatewise]

I don't think there is any simple way to adjust the period at the end of each sentence.

However, I am surprised you are getting the place name repeated in full like that.
The default Report > Options > Main tab setting is with 'Use Short Form for Repeated Place Names' ticked.

So 'Lunenburg, Essex, Vt.' should only appear in full once and subsequently, only 'Lunenburg' should be used.

As you say, the alternative is to edit the Sentence Template of each Fact Type to reverse {date} and {place} so {place} is less likely to be last in the sentence.

You could report the double period problem to CP as it might appear in other scenarios.

[woodr2011]

Thank you, Mike. I have contacted CP with the issue. I would like to see an option in reports to omit or to include that period for this (and other) reasons. Editing all of those fact sentences would be a tedious task. Just as an aside: I deselected the 'Use Short Form for Repeated Place Names' box in order to illustrate the problem. That would minimize it to some extend if selected, as you say.

[Jane]

You could also reorder the sentence templates to show the place and then the date.

[tatewise]

Jane, I already said that, so you are repeating me again.
However, that solution is not foolproof as there may be no Date.