From: Nick H. <nic...@ho...> - 2013-05-27 16:13:25
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On 27/05/13 13:37, Benny Malengier wrote: > 3/I would like to enable some copy paste function though on the > Definition tab. So, I would like to offer some mechanism to quickly > copy paste or select existing parts of title/pub info (for users > fixing imported gedcom or old gramps sources), and to import a bibtex > and select fields from that. Perhaps a bottom part with buttons, or > drag and drop to a top part with the actual fields? Need to try some > GUI ideas for how to do this. Yes, copy and paste would be useful for splitting up the "Volume/Page" field in citations as well. > > 4/ In the definition tab, if entry is in a table, column for author, > pubinfo can be added with checkbox to indicate what to use. Idea here > is that we don't need our old Title, Author and Pub Info, but we do > need to make clear to users what would be exported to Gedcom, as that > is important. In Overview this could shown in a Gedcom section. You could have a "Preview" tab to show a preview of the Gedcom output as well as the F, S and L formats. > > Note: Abbreviation is for your local indexing system, so this is an > editable field on Overview, just like privacy. Thanks, I was never clear what to use the abbreviation field for. > > As to Title, Pub Info and Author, perhaps best to make those just > Attributes and deprecate them. Same for Page/Volume in citation. Date > is special, as allowing the use of the date editor is not something we > want to loose... > I am happy to deprecate these fields. Do we need to define a data type with the source and citation attributes? If the attribute is a date, we could allow the usual Gramps validation and editing functionality. Nick. |