customProperties or similar for words in a field?

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sat Oct 10 20:34:45 EDT 2015


On 10/10/2015 10:28 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 8:21 AM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> This sounds like a job for the merge command.
>>
>>
> thanks,but that's a one-way trip.  If the user changes something, I need to
> know which piece, as it shows up elsewhere.  (And, potentially the user
> could change the  base text, too, which would need to be save!)
> I need to have wa way to keep a handle on the source of the changed word.

I can't think of anything elegant offhand. What popped into my head was 
a "madlibs" approach where you put up a dialog requesting the various 
data items and save the responses. Not pretty.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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