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

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

On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 06:50 -0400, Doug Blank wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 6:41 AM, James Bridge <ja...@xm...>
> wrote:
>         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]
> 
> Interesting idea, James. Can you make a feature request, and copy the
> text from your email there (and point us to that in the mailing list,
> so follow-ups can go there)?

Done. The link is http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=2849

>  
>         
>         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.
> 
> That might be harder than a customized display, but please mention
> that too in the feature request.
> 
> I suspect that this would be customizable, because not everyone could
> agree on the symbols. Personally, I'd like at least "abt" and "bet"
> for "about" and "between", respectively.
> 
> -Doug
>  
>         
>         James Bridge
>