Re: [Gramps-users] Sorting of names with prefixes

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

Hans,


There is an option in
Edit-> Preferences -> Display tab

There you see the Name format entry at the top. Changing the name display
changes sorting in the views (restart might be needed it seems).

Default is Primary, which puts prefix before the surname. The long option
in th ename formats is what you want, so the one starting with
Primary[sur] and ending with Primary[pre], which indicates the prefix is at
the back. That very long version of the name format is actually the most
international one.

If you only want some people having that ordering, in the person editor,
you can click edit button after the name to open the name editor. There you
can set sort name format and display name format different from the one in
the preference, so as to handle specific cultures. Don't say you cannot
tweak Gramps :-)

Benny


2012/12/20 Hans Boldt <ha...@bo...>

> Phillip wrote:
> > Hans,
> >
> > If you put the "van" prefix in the "prefix" field, your names will be
> > sorted on the main part of the surname.  Attached screen shot shows
> where.
> >
> > Phil.
>
> I did put the prefixes into the prefix field. (Or rather, the "Extract
> Information from Names" tool did.) And my names are still sorted taking the
> prefixes into account. Is there a setting somewhere I need to consider?
> (I'm using version 3.4.2-1, if that makes a difference.)
>
> (BTW, I the attachment didn't come through in the digest.)
>
> Hans
>
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