Re: [Gramps-devel] Narrative Web Site report: User Manual

[Adrian <gra...@ju...>]

This is interesting, I must investigate one strain in my db as on the
webcal out put I have a couple celebrating their 209th wedding
anniversary! Aw Bless! :)

Adrian

On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 00:07 -0400, Douglas S. Blank wrote:
> Nothing really to add to help, but a couple of notes; I think that these
> are correct:
> 
> 1) The algorithm and function called probably_alive is really a sorta
> possibly_alive, as it is optimistic but recursive. If it can't find any
> evidence to the contrary, it assumes a person is alive.
> 
> 2) Currently the Age on Date Gramplet uses a more direct algorithm. If it
> can't compute an age directly, it doesn't include someone. (Strangely, on
> a test in my database this matched 271 people whereas probably_alive only
> matched 261. I guess the recursion helps to eliminate, but there could be
> a bug there...)
> 
> 3) The word LIVING should be replaced in the code with the phrase of the
> user's choice by using some of the config options; see Preferences ->
> Text. I don't think many reports have been converted to many of those yet.
> 
> 4) Rather than relying on the probably_alive algorithm, people can use the
> Calculate Estimated Date tool (under Tools -> Database Processing) to
> automatically compute these dates, and then adjust as needed. Currently,
> the tool uses the same algorithm as probably_alive, but it will eventually
> get better (and take longer as it will be more thorough). It is faster to
> have an actual birth/date event rather than recursively trying to
> estimating one.
> 
> -Doug