The main change is in place prefixes, prepositions or 'locative' cases. If you add two Custom Tags to the Place object, namely Name.Gender & Name.Plural, then the Dictionary entries can take account of the gender of a Place name and its plurality. So we can have a place 'Pays-Bas' with an automatic prefix and set its Name.Plural Custom Tag to 'Y' and a Place France with Name.Gender set to 'F' to use the Dictionary entries

<PlacePrefix_Country T="au" P="aux" /> to arrive at aux Pays-Bas
and <PlacePrefix_Country_F T="en" /> to get en France

(hopefully next week I'll include name translation to translate 'Holland' to 'Pays-Bas' via the NameDictionary)

similarly in German we can have

<PlacePrefix_AtThe T="in dem" /> <PlacePrefix_AtThe_F T="in der" />

The other major change is expanded forms of the date span phrases. Note that I have removed the leading space from these phrases and so Dictionary phrases that use them have also been changed.

Minor changes are a facility for gender-specific terms for twins and possessive forms the the 'spouse/mate' alternatives.

Also a little tweak to Timelines to have a minimum gap of 30 pixels for events sharing the same timeline 'track' as I found it looked odd when two events occurred 'back-to-back'.

Update: 4 Jun 2007 - 2.0.0.6RC2 posted
Update: 7 Jun 2007 - 2.0.0.6RC3 posted
Update: 18 Jun 2007 - 2.0.0.6RC4 posted
Update: 23 Jun 2007 - 2.0.0.6RC5 posted
Update: 26 Jun 2007 - 2.0.0.6RC6 posted

The so-called invalid char are actually "é".

Possibly a unicode problem.

Thank you.

Jean-Claude Morin
Information Technology Director, GenoPro.
http://www.genopro.com

2) Adoptif fils (adopted son):

The FR word order should be "Fils adoptif". To achieve this at the moment, the instruction "WriteIndividualEvents ..." needs to be changed within "Util.vbs", if not mistaken. This should be accessible from the Dic. Also the adjective "Adoptive" should also be provided for a Fem Ind, i.e. <TimelineAdopted_F>. Also, perhaps for other languages, a <TimelineFoster_F>.

3) Connu (known)
There is a need for the plurial of the adjective "Connu", i.e. in the <PhChildRank> template.

I'm no French teacher but, as the word "enfant" could, in fact, be Masc (un enfant) or Fem (une enfant), I wonder if a Fem Plurial (connues) should also be provided (when all chidren are Fem)? Up to Genopro to check this point.

B - Bugs

1) Half-sisters phrase not complete. It should say "... et <inconnue>" (unknown Fem).

2) Space before a year
This only happens in a Pedigree Chart:

3) Missing "d" in Date "de"
The bug, apparently, may not be fully fixed yet! I think it's only when a month is present.

For info, here are the associated Ph templates:

<FmtSinceYM>[à partir de|aux environs de|avant|après] MMM yyyy</FmtSinceYM>
and
<FmtFromYM>[de|aux environs de|d'avant|d'après] MMM yyyy</FmtFromYM>

Note: The <ConvertDateSpan> substitution template doesn't seem to be implemented, i.e. de -> d' in front of avril, août and octobre.
        Same remark for the <LocativeProperNoun> subst templ: Doesn't seem to work.

I'll test a bit more if I've got time, including the Places Prefix as explained in the 1st post of this topic. There's so many possible scenarios all over the place!!
I am also looking forward on the implementation of the new "NameDictionary.xml". Looks interesting.
Good work.
JC

I want to include a new 'Report Parameters' dialogue that I am currently working on in the next release and I also need to do some further work for name translation so it will be a few days before I have the next release candidate ready. 

1) Contact entries
Subsequent to clicking an entry in the Contact Toc, I noticed some Ph not fully translated:

I then changed, in Contacts.htm, the line:

Report.WritePhraseDic "PhOccupancy", c.type, StrHtmlHyperlinkPlace(c.Place), c.Duration, c.DateStart.FormatDateSpan(c.DateEnd)

to (copied from the Sub WriteHtmlOccupancies(i) in Ind.htm):

Report.WritePhraseDic "PhOccupancy", c.type, StrHtmlHyperlinkPlace(c.Place), c.Duration, StrDateSpan(c.DateStart, c.DateEnd)</