Repeat Alternatives

   There are other methods available in Pathagoras which mimic the 'Repeats.' They offer more controlled results in terms of 'variable naming.'

•The 'cumulative' modifier to the <<*Options*>> options is our 'top pick' as an alternative to 'Repeat'. With 'cumulative', you list the choices reflecting an increasingly higher count of 'items'. if you select item 4 in the list, all selections up to and including 4, are inserted, and the remainder are deleted. Pathagoras can even add the proper punctuation (commas and 'and').. See 'Cumulative Options' for more information and examples.

 
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•You can save what would be the results of a Repeat as separate choices in an <<*Options* . . .  text block, e.g.:

<<*Options*No children/One child/Two children/Three children/Four children*There were no children born of this marriage/There was one child born of this marriage, namely [Child1Name], born [Child1DOB]/There were two children born of this marriage, namely [Child1Name], born [Child1DOB] and [Child2Name], born [Child2DOB]/There were three children born of this marriage, namely [Child1Name], born [Child1DOB], [Child2Name], born [Child2DOB], and [Child3Name], born [Child3DOB]/There were four children born of this marriage, namely [Child1Name] born [Child1DOB], [Child2Name] born [Child2DOB], [Child3Name], born [Child3DOB] and [Child4Name], born [Child4DOB]>>.

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•Another easy and straightforward alternative is to prepare, and save as separate documents, content that reflects the text that would result if you chose 2, 3 or 4, etc., of the element sought to be repeated. .

For example, in a Will, you might have the following alternative clauses reflecting from zero to four children:

wil120_0:

There were no children born of this marriage.

wil120_1:

There was one child born of our marriage, namely [Child1Name] born [Child1DOB].

wil120_2:

There were two children born of our marriage, namely [Child1Name] born [Child1DOB] and [Child2Name] born [Child2DOB].

wil120_3:

There were three children born of our marriage, namely [Child1Name] born [Child1DOB], [Child2Name] born [Child2DOB], and [Child3Name] born [Child3DOB].

wil120_4:

There were four children born of our marriage, namely [Child1Name] born [Child1DOB], [Child2Name] born [Child2DOB], [Child3Name] born [Child3DOB] and [Child4Name] born [Child4DOB].

When you are assembling a clause, simply select the appropriate 'family size' clause from the list of clause options. This technique is straightforward and easy to implement.