Re: [Gramps-users] Source references names and notes

[Frederico M. <fs...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Benny Malengier
<ben...@gm...> wrote:

> Yes. Source reference is about how to fine the info of the object in the
> source. So you should put there everything you need to find your info in the
> source: page, log date, share a note of the source with the sourceref, ...
> At the moment, the list of sources in an object only lists the page of the
> sourceref.  You should interpret page broadly in my view, you can use it to
> list more info depending on your needs.

Yes, I do that, I add whatever info I have, be it page, registry
number, folios, etc.

> I believe you say that sourceref needs a description.

Ehe, yes, that is an apt short version of my entire rambling ;)

> A running text to make
> clear what it references in the source. Do a feature request. You can misuse
> the page field to achieve it somewhat:
> page 2 - section 4.1 descendants of John Doe
> or
> page 2 - birth record John Doe
> or
> page 2 - note 19090401: birth John Doe
>

I will make a feature request then, I didn't do it yet since I wanted
to see if I was looking at it the wrong way. While possible I think
that adding that text to the page field is a bit "hackerish".

> My point is just that the sourceref should contain the data needed to find
> info in the source. It is hard however to agree on what is needed to achieve
> that. At the moment page and date are given. The discussion should go about
> what extra is needed. We could try to be intelligent: if a note is present
> that is present also in the source, then display the first line of that note
> too. That looks like a difficult scheme however. Adding a description field
> the user uses as he likes is probably easier.

I actually think that the source reference fields are fine as they
presently are in terms of the above purpose: finding the information
on the source. I don't have a need for anything new in that regard,
merely in terms of a more human-readable description to be able to
tell apart source references that end up being very similar. So it is
more of a cosmetic issue in the end, and a description field would
work perfectly, so I'll put that in the feature request.

I'll also search the existing feature request concerning a way to find
similar (i.e. "equal" in terms of actual reference information) source
references and perhaps "sync" them in some way. As I said adding a
transcript at a latter date is non-trivial given the possible
proliferation of the source reference.

Regards,

Frederico