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by davidf
11 Dec 2022 12:04
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Text from source - tables in reports
Replies: 32
Views: 5356

Re: Text from source - tables in reports

No. Syntax documentation is here Ah! So, FH "Rich Text f ormat" is not Microsoft Rich Text F ormat (the case of the initial letter of format being rather vital!). It is FTF ! 'FTF' stands for 'Family Historian Text Format'. Probably fun to write a "Rich Text" editor from scratch...
by davidf
11 Dec 2022 11:35
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Text from source - tables in reports
Replies: 32
Views: 5356

Re: Text from source - tables in reports

Yes, Rich Text format does not seem to require the tags to be in balanced nested pairs. That makes writing code (such as in plugins) particularly complicated. "does not require" either means that it genuinely does not matter, or that it has a reasonable tolerance of dodgy syntax. It may b...
by davidf
11 Dec 2022 09:02
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Text from source - tables in reports
Replies: 32
Views: 5356

Re: Text from source - tables in reports

Is it an error in the first line of the above example that the markup is interwoven rather than nested? Certainly in HTML/XML/XHTML that line would fail a syntax checker
by davidf
10 Dec 2022 22:04
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Uploading media
Replies: 25
Views: 1974

Re: Uploading media

David, well spotted. That Project File 'Last Media Folder' setting should be part of the CP report. Does it do anything in V7? I am loath to report it as a V6 anomaly - the best I will probably get is a "yes, it is an anomaly - but as it's not a security issue we won't do anything"? Best ...
by davidf
10 Dec 2022 22:01
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Uploading media
Replies: 25
Views: 1974

Re: Uploading media

BTW: You seem to be focusing on the last folder uploaded to within FH. Whereas this thread is more focussed on the last folder downloaded from when using 'Insert from file'. Is that because I download from websites etc direct into the media folder, so that puts the image within the FH filesystem; t...
by davidf
10 Dec 2022 19:51
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Uploading media
Replies: 25
Views: 1974

Re: Uploading media

Perhaps there should be a saved last location for each class of data and should it be per user or per Project? i.e. One for Media, one for Backups, one for GEDCOM, and so on... Well this thread was originally about uploading media probably the most common upload that we do - and I expect many of us...
by davidf
10 Dec 2022 16:55
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Text from source - tables in reports
Replies: 32
Views: 5356

Re: Text from source - tables in reports

For me, the question is "what will I do with the reports?" I transcribe UK census entries as simple plain text, such as "John Smith, Head, Mar, 43, M, Layabout, b Somewhere", one row per person, blank fields omitted with no double commas. It's fully searchable, and I've got the ...
by davidf
10 Dec 2022 16:48
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Uploading media
Replies: 25
Views: 1974

Re: Uploading media

I wonder if that is actually a bug in FH that's worth reporting to CP? Media import defaults to the last used backup folder, but other import and export options (via File > Import/Export) do not, as far as I can tell. If there is an "annoyance" that is replicable by other V7 users, I thin...
by davidf
10 Dec 2022 12:50
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Uploading media
Replies: 25
Views: 1974

Re: Uploading media

In my Wine Setup (which is emulating Windows 7 and running V6) I have had the same issue with having to define the path every time I uploaded media. The ("Windows") file open dialog has "Favorites" as an option; putting in Favorites a short-cut to the relevant directory, gives me...
by davidf
09 Dec 2022 17:31
Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
Topic: Using XML vs Gedcom to store data
Replies: 48
Views: 3498

Re: Using XML vs Gedcom to store data

Do we retitle this topic to something like Shared Citations in a GEDCOM compliant application?
by davidf
09 Dec 2022 17:28
Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
Topic: Using XML vs Gedcom to store data
Replies: 48
Views: 3498

Re: Using XML vs Gedcom to store data

However I do really wonder why we need this. We'd just be turning citations into something very similar to splitter sources. Splitter sources work really well so why not use them Not resisting the temptation to repeat the reasons why some like to "lump". Habit. Let's be up front about it....
by davidf
09 Dec 2022 15:09
Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
Topic: Using XML vs Gedcom to store data
Replies: 48
Views: 3498

Re: Using XML vs Gedcom to store data

I'm not saying this is a bad idea - far from it - I'm trying to concentrate my own thoughts first because if Calico Pie did something with this, there's every danger that the first Method 2 Lumper to use the software will complain "That's not a duplicate citation.." Or "This is a Dup...
by davidf
09 Dec 2022 13:23
Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
Topic: Using XML vs Gedcom to store data
Replies: 48
Views: 3498

Re: Using XML vs Gedcom to store data

That can be done by simply comparing all the Citation subfields including the link to the Source record. If the 'lumped' Citations have been created consistently then they will get 'grouped' together consistently. I think it is more complex than that - certainly if the "Where Used" field ...
by davidf
09 Dec 2022 12:14
Forum: Maintaining the KnowledgeBase
Topic: EMF icons - specifically sub-UN State flags (Munster, Scotland, Flanders etc.)
Replies: 26
Views: 3864

Re: EMF icons - specifically sub-UN State flags (Munster, Scotland, Flanders etc.)

Having mulled this over this evening, I think I will step back from any actions. ... Whatever aspect ratio or format they are created in, 1:1, 2:3, 16:9, or whatever, someone will probably want them a different way. I think you are right to highlight in the above post and previous ones that this ex...
by davidf
08 Dec 2022 18:38
Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
Topic: Using XML vs Gedcom to store data
Replies: 48
Views: 3498

Re: Using XML vs Gedcom to store data

David, FH does not have any virtual table of Place details. They are real GEDCOM Place records and saved in the GEDCOM file as GEDCOM records with the tag _PLAC. It sounds like you have not inspected an FH GEDCOM file closely enough. ... However, none of them exists in the GEDCOM standard specifica...
by davidf
08 Dec 2022 18:08
Forum: Maintaining the KnowledgeBase
Topic: EMF icons - specifically sub-UN State flags (Munster, Scotland, Flanders etc.)
Replies: 26
Views: 3864

Re: EMF icons - specifically sub-UN State flags (Munster, Scotland, Flanders etc.)

Yup, I would want the constant heights, that you happen to have achieved in your second shot (2x1), but with a constant gap, that you happen to have achieved in you first shot (1x1)! It looks as if the icons are positioned in a fixed grid determined by the "icon dimensions" (misnamed!) I s...
by davidf
08 Dec 2022 17:55
Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
Topic: Using XML vs Gedcom to store data
Replies: 48
Views: 3498

Re: Using XML vs Gedcom to store data

Family Historian already uses a "virtual table" for some aspects - for instance Places. GEDCOM does not have place records; FH presumably when it opens a project reads all the place fields into some sort of table and presents them to us in a "one place - many fact fields" format....
by davidf
08 Dec 2022 17:22
Forum: Maintaining the KnowledgeBase
Topic: EMF icons - specifically sub-UN State flags (Munster, Scotland, Flanders etc.)
Replies: 26
Views: 3864

Re: EMF icons - specifically sub-UN State flags (Munster, Scotland, Flanders etc.)

I think it ought to be reported - particularly if it is carried through to V7. I can't see any reason for it to be intentional - and the kludge requires different icon sets for different shadow depths! You are welcome to report the Icon and Shadow conflict to CP. Ticket #449521 The Icon Vert. or Ho...
by davidf
08 Dec 2022 16:43
Forum: Maintaining the KnowledgeBase
Topic: EMF icons - specifically sub-UN State flags (Munster, Scotland, Flanders etc.)
Replies: 26
Views: 3864

Re: EMF icons - specifically sub-UN State flags (Munster, Scotland, Flanders etc.)

What happens if you set an icon vertical size, but leave the horizontal size blank - will it self-set according to the aspect ratio?
by davidf
08 Dec 2022 16:08
Forum: Maintaining the KnowledgeBase
Topic: EMF icons - specifically sub-UN State flags (Munster, Scotland, Flanders etc.)
Replies: 26
Views: 3864

Re: EMF icons - specifically sub-UN State flags (Munster, Scotland, Flanders etc.)

I don't know if anybody has reported the Icon and Box Shadow overlap problem to CP. I think it ought to be reported - particularly if it is carried through to V7. I can't see any reason for it to be intentional - and the kludge requires different icon sets for different shadow depths! Either they n...
by davidf
08 Dec 2022 16:02
Forum: Maintaining the KnowledgeBase
Topic: EMF icons - specifically sub-UN State flags (Munster, Scotland, Flanders etc.)
Replies: 26
Views: 3864

Re: EMF icons - specifically sub-UN State flags (Munster, Scotland, Flanders etc.)

So rather than doing any real work this afternoon, I have been having a look at creating and converting some flags to see how they look in FH. Unfortunately I found using the supplied flags rather aesthetically unpleasing. Because they are all different sizes and shapes, I had to alter the Icon Siz...
by davidf
08 Dec 2022 12:34
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Uploading media
Replies: 25
Views: 1974

Re: Uploading media

It did not in V6 either - I have to respecify the path to upload to every time. Annoyingly if I upload to the \media directory I have to be very careful to approach that directory through the same route as FH (i.e. taking care to use the same drives in WINE); if you don't, you get a long path name s...
by davidf
08 Dec 2022 12:28
Forum: Maintaining the KnowledgeBase
Topic: EMF icons - specifically sub-UN State flags (Munster, Scotland, Flanders etc.)
Replies: 26
Views: 3864

Re: EMF icons - specifically sub-UN State flags (Munster, Scotland, Flanders etc.)

I'm open to correction here, but I believe the dpi option does not appear for emf-format files, only for other file types. Using emf files, the size is determined by the Diagram Options > Dimensions > More Dimensions > Icon Size parameters. This is what I use and it gives a regularity in icon sizes...
by davidf
08 Dec 2022 12:08
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Source templates
Replies: 32
Views: 3653

Re: Source templates

I think you need to think about how you use FH. In respect of this question, I would highlight two approaches (you may then fall between the two) Some of us just use FH as a structured repository of data that we then refer to when "writing family history" - we have little interest in tryin...
by davidf
08 Dec 2022 11:17
Forum: Maintaining the KnowledgeBase
Topic: EMF icons - specifically sub-UN State flags (Munster, Scotland, Flanders etc.)
Replies: 26
Views: 3864

Re: EMF icons - specifically sub-UN State flags (Munster, Scotland, Flanders etc.)

I don't know how accurate you want to be, but a lot of flags have different aspect ratios to each other and that should probably be respected. My feeling is that you respect the aspect ratio and that you try to arrange for all icons to have a consistent height - which looks tidier when arranged alo...