Re: [Gramps-devel] Name display patch for a short, common name

[Alvaro H. <alv...@al...>]

Douglas S. Blank wrote:
> 
> On Sat, October 6, 2007 9:06 am, bm...@ca... wrote:
> > I don't see a patch of namedisplay on that bug you mention. Can you add
> > and
> > notify me?
> 
> Oops! Wrong one. Try:
> 
> http://bugs.gramps-project.org/view.php?id=1018

Interesting.  Thanks!  I've actually been pondering this too, but my
problem is family names.  You see, my tree uses the hispanic style for
surnames.  So a person's full "surname" is his father's surname (but
only the first half) plus his mother's (first half).

So if my father was called "Jorge Antonio Jacinto Gonzalez Perez" (note
he has "three first names") and my mother was "Carmen Eliana Fernandez
Zarate", then I could be called "Alvaro Felipe Gonzalez Fernandez".

Of course, this is too much to be putting in the Calendar view.  The
name I would regularly use is just "Alvaro Gonzalez", with my middle
name (Felipe) being hidden, and my mother's surname (Fernandez) being
hidden too.

However, in Gramps there is no way to separate the mother's surname from
the father's -- at least from the PoV of the Calendar report.

(Hmm, now that I think about it, I've been using the hispanic surname
"guesser" when entering people and it seems to work correctly, so maybe
this is just the reports not being able to use the guesser to display
just the father's surname).

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