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The birth date  above is 15-Mar-1898 and the death date is 1958.

The son Nick has no alternative name.

The daughter Maria has no death date and only the year for the birth date.

To prevent confusion, the simplest fix would be to remove the alternative names from the timeline.

Frank1

Edited: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 by GenoProSupport

You mentioned that before. Maybe the GenoPro program cannot fix this problem, but maybe the report generator can. Or, maybe if it's not fixable it can be overcome.

For example Ron suggested a fix for the parenthesis in the other thread which worked. The doubling up I don't know yet.

As I understand the report generator, it uses variables to collect the info and if it exists displays it. Therefore, if the reference to the Alternative Name in the Timeline display is removed, the display will not be confusing. I have some very old people looking at my HTML reports. If I can go by some of their questions there is no way they would uinderstand the mixing of dates and Alternative Names.

The problem is that I don't know where in the report generator these Timeline section resides so I could look at it.

Thanks

Frank1

I think it can be overcome.  The Unicode standard has special characters to indicate the change in text direction.  For your information, you are welcome to read Inheritance of text direction information at http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.2.2

Authors may alternatively override the bidirectional algorithm using the Unicode character ‭ to force left-to-right directionality or ‮ to force right-to-left directionality. The character ‬ ends the overriding of the algorithm. These characters should not be used in combination with the DIR attribute.

Edited: Tuesday, April 1, 2008 by GenoProSupport

This is the approach I was intending to evaluate. The previous problem of this nature I refered to was with the Calendar page in the Report. This was fixed using the HTML <bdo> tag. The <bdo> tag might also work here. I just need some time to check it all out.

That's great. The doubling up is fixed. The parenthesis is fixed. The mixup in the timeline is fixed.

There is, however, another minor problem in the timeline:

Sometime the full date is not shown.

And sometimes only a single word from the 2 word Alternative Name is shown without the date. In this case the date should be Feb 26 1978.

I think we are getting close to getting it all right.

Thanks a lot

Frank1

Here only the year is missing.

Here also, the year is missing but the double Alternative Name is correct.

I will go back to the original computer and see if I can find the cause of this discrepancy.

Frank1

I don't understand how they can be different, but they are.

Frank1