Re: [Gramps-users] Call_Name use in reports.

[Douglas S. B. <db...@cs...>]

On Tue, January 1, 2008 8:58 am, Brian Matherly wrote:
>> I think that the consistency I'd like to see is that
>> all reports have a
>> method for picking and defining a format for their
>> name display. That way,
>> the report writer needn't choose, and the user can
>> decide what is best.
>
> The report author should not choose. The author should
> use the format that the user has set in their
> preferences. The user can configure any name format
> they want in the preferences (which can include the
> call name) and the reports should use that format. I
> don't see why there would be any need for every report
> to have an option for name format when the user has
> already configured that in the Gramps preferences.
>
> Am I missing something?

Yes, I think so :) Some reports require a different name format than the
main preference. For example, the calendar has very little space and
output is generally for a more familiar audience than more formal output.
It is a pain to have to change the preference, run the report, and then
change it back. It can default to the preferences, and is saved, so it is
really a useful option that users use.

Secondly, some people would like to have different formatting for
different names within a report. So, birth names might have one format,
and married names another (see
http://bugs.gramps-project.org/view.php?id=616 for example). I'm not sure
about implementing that particular request, but this is an example of the
type of flexibility that just setting a sinlge value in preferences
doesn't allow.

-Doug

> ~Brian