Re: [Gramps-devel] RC3 errors

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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Tim Waugh had this to say:

>On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:36:28AM -0700, dpe...@si... wrote:
>
>> Also, in the detailed descendant report every person. living or dead, is
>> referred to in the past tense.  This reads awkwardly.  A naive fix would
>> be to only use past tense if a death date exists for the person.  
>> However, that is still imperfect because one may not know the death
>> date---especially for far-removed generations. 
>
>This is what Person.probablyAlive() is for.  Although it could be made

Ahhh.  I have not dived into the details of the reports yet.  I just 
noticed this in reading them.  Good idea.

>> Also, if the person is living, but parents are deceased, then using
>> the past tense in terms of "Joe was the son of John and Betty" may
>> still be appropriate.  Any ideas?
>
>Just MHO, but I think the tense should agree with the state of 'Joe'
>in that sentence.

I think I agree with you.  I _did_ use the qualifier "may", after all. :-)

In any case, as Alex said, we are in string freeze now so we won't touch 
it until the new release is made.

Cheers,
-Don
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