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I think Mike is right. It's too late for me to look for my CSS books, but I think that the whole point of the CSS font stuff is to describe the desired font and then a series of fall-backs to be used if the desired font in not available to the browser on the machine. And one way of specifying the fa...

Thanks Mike - I should have realised that. For those of you even less certain than I was, I've just adjusted a Sentence for a specific marriage Fact to: {individual} married {spouse/her/him} (she was recorded as {=GetFieldText(FactOwner(%FACT%, 1, FEMALES_ONLY),"%~.NAME[2]%")}) {date}< ({date:DAY_OF...

... they marry under the new name and that is how it should record in the narrative, as per the register. I'm no fan of the poor way that GEDCOM handles multiple names but having just one name visible in the narrative at the point of the second marriage, is wrong from some point of view, whichever ...

... Where I have used such Custom Facts and Standard Facts, the Facts themselves determine the Roles. Otherwise, the Narrative Sentences would not describe the Individual's Role in the associated Fact. ... That would indeed be one way of doing it. I suspect I make a lot more use of the Notes than m...

Interesting - like you I was tempted by Witnesses but disliked the way I could not use queries on the non-principals, for one thing. I think your idea of driving it all from the Sources, with any Associations, works in Data Model terms until you start wondering whether the Source can truly define th...

GENUKI is usually a good place to start. Places in Suffolk are listed on http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SFK/Where/ - from there one can go to (e.g.) Rendham ( http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SFK/Rendham/ ), which turns out to be a Church of England parish in its own right. As stated above, for 17...

I have raised a wishlist item 12795|Use of Rotation meta data in images to cover my proposal that FH should respect and use the EXIF Orientation metadata. One limitation I mention there is that the EXIF Orientation metadata values can be useless when the camera is pointing directly down. I found thi...

Proposal : FamilyHistorian should make use of the EXIF Orientation metadata that can be held against certain types of images, such as .JPG and rotate the resulting image accordingly wherever the end-user sees an image, such as in thumbnails, reports and diagrams. Background : 1. See forum item 1134...

Nearly created another thread on this topic until my mental "tatewise" simulator routine prompted me to search! I've only just hit this issue and it's with images of pages of a Crew List Agreement. These images would normally be associated only with my source-records and I tend not to print those in...

Hmmm - I wonder if preferring EXIF to IPTC, where both are populated, is necessarily the right way to go? I just feel that the vast majority of people with metadata in image files, will have put it there using specialist images editors and not Windows Explorer. And the specialist editors are more li...

Gordon - I'd buy into your suggestion. That PDF doesn't make it clear to me (which may be my fault!) what to do if keywords appear in both EXIF and IPTC metadata, though it does go through some of the other items that appear in both. I think there was a tendency to say, use IPTC in preference to EXI...

Having thought through what we've found and glanced at the linked PDF about metadata, I have to say that I personally don't believe that Microsoft is doing it wrong and Adobe is doing it right. In any case, whether or not you agree, I think we can produce a more specific request for Calico Pie. Firs...

I have not tried getting FH to see keywords but.... I'm using XnView as a browser - it shows separate tabs for EXIF and IPTC metadata, implying they are different kettles of fish. I added a tag in Windows Explorer - and in Explorer it shows up in Tags under Property / Description. I added two tags i...

If we were talking a specialist genealogical journal, then either the topic is covered by their house-style or their editor should be able to say what the desired style is. Since it appears that we're not talking such a thing, then I would suggest that it's up to you. Just choose what you think the ...

I wonder if their decision not to transmit the images with the file might in part be explained by copyright concerns? Downloading single images, manually, one at a time, is one thing. But a GEDCOM could be set up to contain a lot of people and therefore to download a lot of source images. So you may...

Their software is not entirely consistent behind the scenes (I wonder what their rewrite of a couple of years ago did for the software layer!). Can't remember the exact issue but I found myself having to log in again partway through a session to access one particular collection. Eventually I realise...

Do we actually know if this is a problem with FH or the print driver that converts to .PDF? I ask because I had problems with missing images years ago when producing a document for my father's 80th birthday. This was written in Word and I was converting it to .PDF for printing elsewhere. And I was l...

Another point at which Richard's approach would benefit, would be if you were recording a lot of soldiers and wanted to analyse or query their ranks, promotions, medals, etc, etc. Then getting precise structuring of the info would enable this.

Like Lorna, I find it makes no sense to split military service into separate events and / or attributes. The problem is that facts with a date range print out with their start and end date and are then followed by events that occur during that time period - and halfway down the page, you've forgotte...

"I don't understand why Adrian says 5.5.1 Custom Attributes are so different from FH" :oops: You know what, Mike? Neither do I! I had got it into my head that the GEDCOM 5.5.1 user-defined attribute was "upside down" compared to the FH equivalent. But reading the "manual", the quoted example is: 1 F...

"the laughable response was that 5.5.1 was/is only a draft" - why is this laughable? If you aim to work from standards, you need to follow standards. Not drafts. It's not as if the 5.5.1 drafts are even internally consistent. I have, on several occasions, wanted to find the commentary on why certain...

...So I maintain that without Gedcom we would hardly be able to start the discussion. Totally agree Mike. ( Sorry - probably pointless contribution but here goes... ) Suppose there are 30 genealogy programs. Without GEDCOM there would need to be 30 x 30 interface routines written across the industr...

As an addendum to Mike's suggestion, I prefix the text to some of my Note Records by a number. This is a reminder to me that these numbered notes have a general significance, rather than one to be linked to a group of individuals. That way, not only is their overall significance clear, but they are ...

Coming at it from a different angle - isn't this a case for going to the Place Record (v6 on only) and entering a "Standardized" value of "Caernarfon, CAE" against the "Carnarvon, CAE" references? Caveat 1 - I've not done this myself yet, so I'm just suggesting this from the help file. Caveat 2 - Th...

DonF wrote:....
But we've probably bored everyone else with this discussion by now..... Don

Surely not! I'd only suggest that Tamura is not "most people". He's a very thorough and very logical guy and I still bet most standards couldn't stand up to his sort of scrutiny!

'nuff said!