Re: [Gramps-devel] better source management

[Brian M. <br...@gr...>]

> Like me a lot of amateur genealogists
> have the goal of writing a
> family history as a book, perhaps illustrated, hopefully
> with source
> notes.
> 
> So, what can Gramps do to help with this? I have two
> ideas:
> 
> * Make a way of referencing sources directly from a note,
> so notes can
> become part of a narrative with sources.
> * Make the Gramps source list exportable in some standard
> form which
> apps like OpenOffice can use.
> 
> Personally I prefer the second idea, Gramps should not
> become a word
> processor. What do others think?

This is only tangentially related:

Gramps currently inserts index marks in OpenDocument reports to allow a table of contents based on headings and an index based on people:
http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Add_Table_of_Contents_or_Index_to_Ooo_reports

It might be interesting to extend this to sources to allow the automatic generation of a "works cited" table with links.

~Brian