Re: [Gramps-users] GEDCOM export of "Estimated before XYZ" dates

[David R. <re...@os...>]

On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:03:31 +0100
Christian Möller wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've a question (or feature request) regarding GEDCOM export of
> certain date field content. Sometimes I'm using estimated date
> information like "estimated before 1750" to distinguish persons
> having the same name but living at different times. If I know that
> one of them married in 1765, I estimate his unknown birth year to be
> before 1750.
> 
> Exporting this data as GEDCOM yields "EST BEF 1750" in the appropriate
> line which looks fine at first. But importing the GEDCOM file with
> some other program I get "estimated 1750". I've asked on the forum of
> the other program and they told me that GEDCOM standard does not
> support more than one modifier like "BEF", "EST" and so on: They
> simply ignore the second one. Hence "EST BEF 1750" becomes "EST 1750".
> 
> So here my question: Is it possible to export "Estimated before 1750"
> as "BEF 1750"? I think this would be more adequate compared with "EST
> 1750".
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Christian

Christian,

Why not just create a small filter script that would change Gramps´
¨EST BEF¨ to ¨BEF¨ ?  A command line like the following could do what
you suggest (and is easily extended if there are other changes needed):

sed ¨s/EST BEF/BEF/¨ < gramps.gedcom > other.gedcom

HTH,

David