You say: "
The only issue I could see would be when that person is referenced in other people's narratives, the nickname wouldn't be included."
The narrative sentences in
Narrative Reports pose a whole different set of issues.
Peoples names crop up in many contexts in many different sentences usually via
Template Codes such as
{individual}.
However, it does NOT read well if fully adorned names with nicknames, given names & alternate names are used everywhere.
Those are only needed when the person is first mentioned, and just
He or
She or unadorned
Primary Name used thereafter.
In the same way,
Place names are typically shortened after the first use.
To understand what I am talking about, adorn a person and some relations with
Name Prefix,
Name Suffix,
Given Name Used,
Alternate Names, etc, and produce various
Narrative Reports for some of them.
By default, such report
Options enable
Name Used,
Adorn Names, and
Inc. Alternate Names, but not every first mention of a name includes all the name components;
Nicknames never appear at present, and
Alternate Names are never adorned.
- When the person is the focus of the report, or their Spouse, then their paragraph starts with their fully adorned Primary Name followed by any Given Name Used and Alternate Names in parentheses.
- When the person is mentioned as a Parent then only their fully adorned Primary Name is shown.
- When the person is mentioned as a Child then the Primary Name is unadorned but any Given Name Used is in parentheses.
- Other names only use the unadorned Primary Name.
If an
Option to include
Nicknames were added, and the above scenarios reviewed, then you need to consider exactly where the fully adorned & extended names should appear.
