From: Sascha V. <Fun...@gm...> - 2007-04-05 21:40:22
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Hi Benny, bm...@ca... schrieb: > there apparently is an error in the dutch translation as surname is > translated > as birthname. No problem. I've got the same placeholders as you attached to your mail. > I'm a bit confused to what you want to do, and deleted your original mail > already. Perhaps you should give an example. > Birthname is a type of name, next to married name, .... Yes, this type extists already. What I want to do, is to display both, the actual family name AND the birthname, as this is common in german. If someone gets married and takes the name of his partner, in family trees he is called "<newname> geborene(r) <oldname>". "geborene(r)" is translated as "born". > So if you want birthname to be used, you should set it as the preferred > name, > which is the name in the person dialog (top section). > Other names can be entered in the tab section 'Names' of the person. Yes, I could type in the whole String as "preferred name" but I think, this confuses more, than it helps, as this String is not the real name, nor was the real name of one person. > So, if you want 'legal name' you just type in the type: 'Legal name', > and that > will create a new nametype, you can use. You can then add in the names tab > 'legal name'. Don't know if that is what you need. That could be used as a workaround, the better solution would be, to enable a new placeholder to be able to use it. But I think with the actual implementation, this is not possible. Maybe I'll file a feature request. Greetings -Sascha- PS: I'm reading the mailinglist, so it would be nice to send the mails to the list only and not to me AND the list cc'ed. |