From: Benny M. <ben...@gm...> - 2009-09-09 08:46:21
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2009/9/9 Reinhard Müller <rei...@by...>: > Am Mittwoch, den 09.09.2009, 09:39 +0200 schrieb Benny Malengier: >> Family: Suffix/Prefix >> Given: Call Name: >> Middle: Patronymic/Title: >> Type: Nick Name: > > I think that a middle name is a special case of a given name. > > My daughter is Simone Vanessa Müller, she is called "Simone", "Vanessa" > is her middle name. > > My gramdmother was Maria Alma Stephanie Höfler, she was called "Alma", > but you wouldn't call "Maria" her "middle name". > > What I do now is to list all names in the correct order in "Given" and > to mention the call name in "Call Name", and I actually consider this > sufficient. The above is how callname must be used, and is the correct working order. You are misunderstanding the meaning of middle. It is the middle surname, not a part of the given names. See the bug thread. So this is for spanish/portugueze with multiple family names, of which one is the main one. Just as callname, it problably is best to give the field a label that is more indicative than just Middle. So let's propose: Secondary: and the tooltip on the input field reads: "Secondary Surnames, for example "João Juan Soares de Sousa" has as Given name: João Juan, and has two surnames, the principal one being de Sousa, and the secondary surname (also called sometimes middle name or additional surnames) being Soares. People are listed in the family view under their (principal) surname. Clearly the tooltip of surname must be changed to so as to indicate one can use Secondary, to add the additional surnames. As indicated in the bug listing, in some cultures the additional surname is at the front, and for other countries at the back of the surname list, so 'middle' name would be wrong for some anyway. Benny > I have also added an option to some of my reports to replace the given > name with the call name, so I can print a report with "Simone Müller" > and "Alma Höfler", which is how these people are called usually. > > Thanks, > Reinhard > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-devel mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-devel > > |