With the risk of this once again being drowned out in noise, derailments, and straw‑man arguments, I’m giving it another try. These topics has been discussed many times over the years, and I’ve raised it repeatedly since the Gramps 5.x era.
Here it comes:
There are three features I still hope to see in Gramps, and two of them I had hoped would arrive in the 6.x.x series. Those two are:
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Main/Sub‑Events
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A multi‑layer Citation/Source/Repository system, including full CLS support and the ability to read/write csl‑json and BibLaTeX files.
With this in place, it would finally be possible to use external bibliography tools—not only Zotero‑like software, but also LaTeX/BibLaTeX workflows for those of who work with LaTeX.
The last feature in this phase is “Events on Places”, but Nick mentioned at some point that this still needs further discussion within the developer group…
And just to mention a few events that would directly benefit from the Main/Sub Event function:
- Migration
- Military units and military campains
- Seamen on ships in merchantil trafic
- Any type of building a new home, moving etc.
- Census registration and more detailed Census research projects
And when this is added to places as “Event owners/Event holders”, it will be possible to do place studies, Farm and property history, more detailed military campain research, more detailed migration events, more correct sensus registration etc.
All of those mentioned and many more scenarios will also be registrered more historically correct.