I would love to see Gramps sources and citations be enhanced to something similar to what is used in Family Historian 7 or Rootsmagic. What is used now looks like what was used with PAF before it was discontinued.

Yes, I would like to have them too !

So, more like Groupings rather than actual Events? Or more than that? Like a master Event that has a Military Service which an enlistment covering a 4 year span and where any date outside that range is invalid. Sub-events might be: enlistment, mustered-in, training, promotions, a series of deployme…

[image] emyoulation: Or more than that? Like a master Event that has a Military Service which an enlistment covering a 4 year span and where any date outside that range is invalid. Sub-events might be: enlistment, mustered-in, training, promotions, a series of deployments, mustered-out. Yes i…

I think it would likely be best modelled as a Group entity. A group could consist of people, events, places, artifacts. As a top level entity a group exists over a particular time span, there are events and attributes that apply to it as members may come and go and they undergo different experienc…

[image] cdhorn: A group could consist of people, events, places, artifacts. See also this discussion of sets .

Thanks, yes, I agree same concept pretty much. I think I prefer the word group but that is just semantics. :slight_smile:

[image] ennoborg: Good points, and focus is part of the problem. Most reference managers can write way more variables than currently exist in the Gramps data model for repos, sources, and citation, so reading CSL JSON is not as easy at it looks. That is, because for each of the dozens of potenti…

You can go on and on, but as a user, I want real open data, and the formatted citations that you paste from your reference tools are not open data. IMO, they’re mostly tedious, and not fit for publication in a local magazine, should I ever want to publish there. The real fact is that none of the to…

The reason I would like to see a citation template engine is it helps keep all my citations consistent. It doesn’t have to be strictly EE based. Right now I’m going through my citations and fixing them, all 2000+ of them. Unless I keep a cheat sheet where I can see it, I forget the order that I’v…

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