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Let me tell you about the most insidious mistake you are going to make when creating layers. It usually happens when you work | Let me tell you about the most insidious mistake you are going to make when creating layers. It usually happens when you work on a layer that contains a large number of instantaneous events. Take for example the layer containing events of the French Revolution. I’ve made (and then fixed) a couple of such mistakes when creating it. | ||
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If you’ve found this mistake while parsing the data, you can just fix the markup in the Parser and parse the data anew. But what if you’ve found the mistake much later and you don’t have the source text any more? | If you’ve found this mistake while parsing the data, you can just fix the markup in the Parser and parse the data anew. But what if you’ve found the mistake much later and you don’t have the source text any more? | ||
Don’t try to fix it manually. If there are more than few incorrect dates, it will be very tedious and error prone to fix them manually. I have created a special program that helps you fix this mistake. I call it the Fixer. And you can find a link to it in the bottom right corner of the Editor. | Don’t try to fix it manually. If there are more than a few incorrect dates, it will be very tedious and error prone to fix them manually. I have created a special program that helps you fix this mistake. I call it the Fixer. And you can find a link to it in the bottom right corner of the Editor. | ||
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