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An example is: Bruidegom Pieter van den Broek Beroep voermansknecht Geboorteplaats Hilversum Leeftijd 35 Bruid Johanna Margaretha van den Ouden Beroep dienstbode Geboorteplaats Amsterdam Leeftijd 33 Vader van de bruidegom Albertus van den Broek Moeder van de bruidegom Margaretha Houtzager Vader van ...

Hi Mike, It has been some time since my last post (been busy elsewhere), but now I've run into a problem with copying source text information from the Dutch genealogy website into FH (they have changed the format of the information on the website). In some sense the format is now simple and straight...

Hi Mike,

I'm OK with the "new" 86 and hope we have found an as yet undiscovered method to get Calico Pie's attention and priority. I like your "wording" of their behavior... humor.

Joop

I agree with the distinction and that the URI (being not more or less than a character string) may be inserted in numerous places in FH. It's essentially what I am doing right now. The extra that is needed comes from the semantics; like knowing that a BIRTH date is something we can do things with in...

Ai Mike, I misunderstood "labelled" :); thought you meant an extra note field with the label "URL". I see now that you meant labelled as in prefix the URL in the note field with a label (e.g. URL). Not my preferred workaround (I'd rather call it a solution without the adjective "workable" :)). This ...

@Colin Yes, they do change as do telephone numbers, physical addresses and places, towns, counties etc. However, URL's from archives don't change very often, but the information on the site may change (e.g. elaboration of a transcription, an added link to a scanned document etc.) and then just click...

Doesn't GEDCOM 5.5 support an URL field somewhere in the standard? Especially since Family Search itself works very well with links to there database? I like your suggested solution from a pragmatic point of view (how to cut the crab and make it work). A few considerations: a) My (and I assume I'm n...

TMG conditional colouring is very well explained by Terry Reigel: - flag setting: http://tmg.reigelridge.com/basics-flags.htm - flag related colouring: http://tmg.reigelridge.com/accents.htm To your questions: 1. I'd like to have the range of applying Flags and of Colouring to be as wide as possible...

Hi Mike, Yes, the Media does indeed fully support my needs. No extra options/modifications needed (as far as I'm concerned). The URL wish list entry 86 is indeed kind of compact. My request woud be: The standard source windows currently has 4 tabs: Main, Notes, Media and All. Add an extra tab: URL's...

Hi Mike, Thanks for getting back on this topic. What I meant is: 1. Use a test to (dynamically) flag certain situations (like TMG has and that works very well). Then make colouring available as something to add to whatever is displayed in whatever window (text, graphics, lists etc.). This proved to ...

Old records usually don't show the birth or death date of a person. Instead we use christening and burial dates. FH nicely shows these dates prefixed with chr. and bur. in the persons overview. But, not so much in children's part of the property box and that's a pity since now (for older records) th...

Thanks Mike and I agree that GetLabelledText (although longer, but not anymore if our wish gets honored :)) is preferable. Together with the Auto-Create Note feature it would be ideal for documenting the sub-fields of a note. On the other hand... wouldn't that insert a lot of unnecessary and duplica...

I like the generalizations; they fit within the current concept and improve readability. Can you move this part of the discussion to the wish list or should I open a new item there? BTW: your BTW is nice; it might even give me a way to kind of document what "subfield" of a note is what. It returns e...

Thanks Mike, I'll report it. What's your view on my proposed enhancements: a. template code for the witness note field e.g. {wnote}; b. template code enrichment for the note field to get rid of a lot of GetParagraphs by allowing something like {note(x)} to fetch the xth paragraph; c. combine a and b...

Sorry Mike, I didn't make myself clear. I meant that fetching the second paragraph when the first one is only a CR/LF doesn't work. The CR/LF is ignored (as it is not in the fact note, I am happy to say). I don't know whether it is by design or has been overlooked, but it seems that the fact note is...

I used {%CUR~WITN.NOTE2%} to access the witness note (for "that" witness) and tried =GetParagraph(%CUR~WITN.NOTE2%,2) to get to the second paragraph of this note. What am I missing?

Yes! And hoping that Simon is still reading this thread: 1. give {note} an optional index e.g. {note(2)} to fetch te second paragraph - would improve readability of sentence templates a lot; 2. make a witness note accessible through a template code e.g. {wnote} - it's even a bit odd to currently hav...

Hi Simon, Yes I know how that works. But, suppose I want something like {bridesmaid}<, {note},> and then "was" or "were" depending on whether there is one or more? The need for this arises when {note} (or a paragraph of it) is used as extra information related to (in this case) the bridesmaid(s) e.g...

Thanks Mike, I think I can always make it the first one. So worth a try!

Yes, the user interface in English is no problem. And as I suggested before, the use of a custom fact set for the translated sentences comes a long way (I have already my own custom set for Dutch). The only extra thing needed is an option/preference to be able to choose for language dependent standa...

That is a bit too complex. But, for my understanding: 1. %FACT._SHAR[x] only exists if [1] to [x] witnesses of whatever role exist? 2. %FACT._SHAR[x].ROLE (if existing) will return the name of role x? 3. Is there some kind of ordering of the witnesses (by use, by definition or...)? 4. If "by definit...

Thanks Mike, how complex? Indeed I would like it to be role specific. Is it doable?

I am looking for a way to find out whether a witness is single or plural to conditionally insert different text in a sentence. Anybody knows how to?

Hi Mike,

So there is a (unintended?) maximum length... thanks for the confirmation. I'll report it to Calico Pie.

You are right about the other paragraphs, they were not truncated and correctly became part of the sentence.

Regards, Joop

The fact (attribute} is a custom one: Sale. The {value} is used for the property being sold. The "fields" in the note are: 1 the amount paid for the property 2 extra clause following the Sellers name (e.g. "brother of...") 3 extra clause following the Guarantor (e.g. "for the amount of...") 4 extra ...