[Gramps-users] proposed concise notation for date ranges etc

[James B. <ja...@xm...>]

I am finally getting the bulk of my data into Gramps and keep on finding
new features ... very nice! 

However, I have a lot of dates which are estimates or ranges and these
take up a lot more space in the date column, so much so that one cannot
actually see the year. I wonder what people would think of using symbols
for the common constructions? Some ideas:
	Calc		=
	est		E
	about		~
	after x 	> x
	before x 	< x
	from x to y	\x -> y\	{x -> y}
	bet. x and y	\x -- y\	[x -- y]

For the last two, I think it is better to have some symbol before the
first date in case the column is too narrow to show the second

The main purpose is to give a more compact display; exporting to gedcom
or XML would presumably still use the long forms. It would be convenient
if the date parser also could recognise the abbreviations.

James Bridge