Re: [Gramps-users] NOTE oddities in other applications

[Richard G. <rag...@sp...>]

Don,

While I was looking for examples, the pattern became clear. This seems
to be a problem only within the NOTE section of a SOUR. It appears that
anything following the NOTE tag is just ignored.

I threw together a dummy file, and edited one of the entries to test out
my theory. The entry which worked was the modified one, with an empty
NOTE line:

0 @S00002@ SOUR
1 TITL Third Source
1 PUBL just long enough for testing
1 NOTE
2 CONC This is another longer note, but this one will be modified ...

This one missed the first line:

0 @S00001@ SOUR
1 TITL Secound Source
1 PUBL doesn't deserve to be
1 NOTE This is going to be a much ... included on First Sourc
2 CONC e. With any luck it will span a couple of lines ...

This one had no NOTE at all:
0 @S00000@ SOUR
1 TITL First Source
1 PUBL nowhere but here
1 NOTE This is a single line source note.

The file and results can be seen online at:
http://www.gencircles.com/users/r_griffith/6/data/1

I'm pretty sure now this is a fault on the GenCircles side. I don't have
immediate access to any other packages to see how they would handle this
set of situations, but it looks like the Gramps output is quite reasonable.

Thanks,
-Richard

Don Allingham wrote:
> Richard,
> 
> Can you give us an example of a NOTE record that this application will
> properly accept?
> 
> Don
> 
> On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 20:50 -0400, Richard Griffith wrote:
> 
>>I have uploaded a GEDCOM export from Gramps 1.0.11-1 to GenCircles.com.
>>I have encountered an issue with the way the NOTE sections are handled,
>>and I am wondering if anyone else might have come up with a workaround
>>solution.
>>
>>The data in the GEDCOM looks like this (cropped to prevent wrapping):
>>
>>1 NOTE The information found ...
>>2 CONC ly make any changes. I...
>>2 CONC iles. I will be happy ...
>>
>>On GenCircles, it looks like this:
>>
>>ly make any changes. I have over 100 photos of people listed in these
>>files. I will be happy ...
>>
>>The first line of the NOTE is dropped completely, but the remainder is
>>properly formatted. I'm not as concerned about who is not following
>>which standard as I am with how to work around this issue. There are
>>several target options on the export which presumably work around known
>>issues with certain GEDCOM aware products, but I am using the GEDCOM 5.5
>>standard. Would any of these other targets have an effect on this issue?
>>I am still using Gramps 1.0.11-1 as my poor old laptop has been
>>stretched about as far as it can go, system-wise, and didn't handle the
>>upgrade to 2.x gracefully, so I backed it out.
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any ideas, and a BIG Thank You to the Gramps team
>>for such a great program,
>>-Richard