Re: [Gramps-users] (no subject) (Duncan Lithgow)

[David a. J. <djr...@cf...>]

> Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 21:31:39 +0200
> From: Duncan Lithgow <dli...@gm...>
> Subject: Re: [Gramps-users] (no subject)
> To: Howard Close <how...@vi...>
> Cc: gra...@li...
> Message-ID: <1209929499.6290.21.camel@ubuntu>
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> On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 09:29 +0100, Howard Close wrote:
>   
>> Trying to migrate from Legacy under Windows to Gramps v3 under Ubuntu.
>> In the past have kept Legacy as my definitive data source but with
>> ever improving Gramps hope to transfer fully to Linux.
>>     
> I'm sure you can if you keep at it.
>
>   
>>  Problems:- 1. How can I re-order the children of a marriage by birth
>> dates?
>>     
> Where? In the Relationship View? Family View, a Rapport... I'm guessing
> that what you want can be done by moving them up and down by clicking
> and dragging. That order will then be respected everywhere.
>
>   
>> 2. Can I change the details of the standard place dataset from a US
>> base to a UK base i.e. rather than have the fields as street, city,
>> county, state, country change them to street, district, city, county,
>> country?
>>     
> Assuming you don't want to re-write the code of gramps, you can't. We've
> discussed ways to make this possible. Please tell us how Legacy handles
> this issue.
>
>   
>> I would further like to add an Ordnance Survey ref rather than Long.
>> Lat. to specify the exact position of the place.
>>     
> Sorry, can't help you there. Anyone?
>
> Regards, Duncan
>   

Perhaps the original poster could add screen shots from Legacy to the 
ComparePrograms page on the wiki.

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