Re: [Gramps-devel] Gramps-devel Digest, Vol 33, Issue 67

[Craig J. A. <and...@ho...>]

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> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:46:33 +0100
> From: Reinhard M?ller <rei...@by...>
> Subject: Re: [Gramps-devel] Not so sweeping changes: (was: $m and	$M
> 	definition updates)
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> Am Sonntag, den 15.02.2009, 12:56 -0800 schrieb Brian Matherly:
> > What could people possibly need that isn't included in those options?
> 
> I might want to:
> * display only date, but not place
> * display dates in a short form (1 January 1900 - 31 December 1999)
> * or even shorter form (01/01/1900 - 31/12/1900)
> * display only years (1900 - 1999) to save space and/or add *some*
> privacy
> 
> I think these variants should go for all displayed dates, it would look
> inconsistent if birth was shown differently than death.
> 
> Also what I'm missing on these reports now is divorce date/place.
> 
> This might be bragging, but maybe you also want to look at my
> contributed FamilyTree report, which combines the Ancestor tree and
> Descendant tree reports in one, making it possible to print both trees
> knotted together in a center family. However, what this report can't do
> is split the output on several pages - I believe this actually might be
> solved on a general level in BaseDoc, CairoDoc and friends.
> 
> Thanks,
> Reinhard

Go ahead and brag!  I did not know about your report until now.  And I like it.  I have planned on making a 'multiple report' report that would make one report for the Ancestors of Dad, another report for the Ancestors of Mom and then a Descendant report of them.  Three separate reports that can be displayed on a wall next to each other.  Hmm.  Maybe this is a future feature of yours?  But this is nice.  I will take a look at the code to see how you did a couple of cool things.  :)  

I still like the Display format.  I am wanting to add date display information that would directly use the strftime function.
http://docs.python.org/library/time.html
example: 'Born on $b(%a,%d %b, %Y) $B'  But of course we would not be able to use hours, minutes, and seconds.
I like the 'print fields for missing information' feature.  I wonder how I can incorporate that into display format.....


But I will have some fun with your report though.  Thanks.

  Craig A.

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