Re: [Gramps-users] A few question

[Don A. <dal...@us...>]

Stefano Rivoir wrote:

>   - My tree starts in 1560, and for the people of those times I have
>     only partial informations: above all, the birth and death dates
>     are often refferred as "born before 1516" or "dead after 1516";
>     is there a "Right Way" to handle those? 

"before 1516"  and "after 1516" are valid dates as far as GRAMPS
is concerned.  You can enter them in just like that, and GRAMPS will
preserve this and understand it.  Date formats the GRAMPS understands
are:

before <date>
after <date>
between <date> and <date>
from <data> to <date>
around <date>
circa <date>
about <date>

Where <date> can be almost any full or partial date format.

>
>   - Is there/will be there the possibility to handle "branches" (don't
>     know if it's the correct term), i.e. to store who is the initiator
>     of a given branch? 

Can you explain this a little more?

>   - Is there a standard way to store "Married with unknown"? I mean,
>     I've created a new "Married" event, but it will not appear
>     "officially" in the variuos graphs. 

There is no offical "UNKNOWN" person (which may be a good candidate
for an addition to the system). Right now, most people just create a person
with the name of "unknown" or "?"

It might be a good idea to add an "UNKNOWN" marker.

>   - Trying to use standard symbol chars (the cross for the death, the
>     star for the birth) in the reports instead of "b." and "d.", result
>     in a wrong char in the PDF (encoding problems, I guess)

This is a limitation of the current PDF generation. It only understands
PostScript fonts. With 1.0.2, we are adding the gnome-print capability,
which might be able to handle this.

Don