Use of Spouse

[Nell Copeland]

John, I would like very much if the Descendants Family Tree Reports used the term "Spouse:" instead of "+.". To remedy this, I copy the report and place it in a text file and then use Find and Replace, but that often changes the margins in inconvenient ways. And it would be a lot easier if I could print the Reports - with the word Spouse - directly from Geditcom.

It seems to me that the few people who want to say "Partner" (or something else) instead of Spouse could use the Find and Replace functions just as easily and less people would be inconvenienced.

Is there an easy way to replace the plus sign with the word Spouse, or can the program be changed to fix this problem?

 Nell Copeland

p.s. I still prefer Geditcom to any other Gedcom program I've tried!

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

[Swanfoth]

I disagree. The neutral + is there mainly for brevity. For several generations longer expression would cause too wide indentation.
And for international audience + sign needs no translation.

[William G. Bates]

I agree completely for an additional reason. The plus sign is REQUIRED if you are going to use a .txt version of the outline output for conversion back to ANY of the other genealogical applications. I have done this several times where someone has sent me an Outline Tree listing (electronic) usually in Word format, used Pages to convert it to .txt format then rendered it directly into GEDCOM format through the old GEDitCOM, just have not tried it on II.

sparkgapper

On Mar 30, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Swanfoth wrote:

> I disagree. The neutral + is there mainly for brevity. For several generations longer expression would cause too wide indentation.
> And for international audience + sign needs no translation.
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[John Nairn]

GEDitCOM II has two reports that output spouse on line beginning in "+", which I did to save space in those report:

1. When viewing a descendant tree, you can use Report->Family Tree as List... menu command. This is hard coded and therefore not easy to change "+" to anything else without a new version of GEDitCOM II with and option to allow that choice (or the method you have used to edited the results html file).

2. When viewing any individual or family, you can alternatively run the script Reports->Descendants Outline Report in the scripts menu. This gets a very similar report and it also uses a "+", but because it is a script, it is easy to customize:

a. Select the Reports->Descendants Outline Report while holding down the option key. This should open the script in AppleScript editor (if not you will have to open in AppleScript editor manually, but it should work unless your MacOS decides to pick a different application, which it does to me all the time).

b. Find the line containing

     

     set end of rpt to "<div class='spse'>+&nbsp;&nbsp;"

and change the "+" in the middle to whatever you want

c. Save the script and run it from GEDitCOM II.

The differences in the script vs. the built in report:

1. The script starts from an individual or family and you select the number of generations for the report. The built in one uses the current family tree window, which gives the added option of expanding and contracting branches to customize the report. (I might be able to fix this in a future version of this script).

2. The built in one has check boxes to select the report detail. The script outputs birth and death dates for individuals and adds marriage details for spouses. But, you can customize the script to get other detail (which cannot be done with built-in one). To customize, open as above and edit the subroutine AddIndividualDetails(). If you know how to write AppleScript's for GEDitCOM, you can create any report detail you want.

Regards,

John

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John Nairn

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