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From: "Cheri Casper" <>
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] [BUG] Curly braces in GEDCOM import causes Genbox to create invalid RTF
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:52:56 -0800
In-Reply-To: <014401c2e76f$fdde8500$6501a8c0@ce1.client2.attbi.com>
Sharon - You may want to wait. I think that Bill has indicated that we will
be getting a new variable to output General Notes into sentences. Currently
anything in that field is automatically appended to your sentence. I am not
sure exactly how this is going to work when we get the variable (meaning, if
there is no variable, I would assume there would be no text output either,
but I can't say for certain). You may want to just do some other cleanup in
the meantime. CheriC
-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 5:46 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] [BUG] Curly braces in GEDCOM import causes Genbox
to create invalid RTF
This is not the answer I had hoped for. They are all Note-type
texts. Guess I had better get to work moving them all to
Research Notes.
Thanks,
Sharon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheri Casper" <>
To: <>
Sent: 10 March, 2003 7:28 PM
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] [BUG] Curly braces in GEDCOM import causes
Genbox to create invalid RTF
| Sharon - If this is a Note type text, you are going to have to
cut & paste
| it into the Research Notes area of the Event. If it is only
an individual
| data field for an Event, I don't know that you can suppress
just that field
| (for example, suppressing the date of marriage but leaving the
fact, spouse,
| & place info intact). For narratives, you can, of course,
suppress the
| entire sentence but I see no way to suppress an individual
field. CheriC
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Sharon [mailto:]
| Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 5:09 PM
| To:
| Subject: Re: [GENBOX] [BUG] Curly braces in GEDCOM import
causes Genbox
| to create invalid RTF
|
|
| Which brings up a question I had before. I've imported my main
| file which contains many double-bracketed items "[[
| data ]]". GENBOX prints this information on reports. The
| program from which it was imported considered information
within
| the double brackets private (or sensitive), and I've used it
| extensively in all fields except dates. I can't find a way to
| make this data sensitive/private in GENBOX. Anyone know?
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Tom Morris" <>
| To: <>
| Sent: 10 March, 2003 4:45 PM
| Subject: [GENBOX] [BUG] Curly braces in GEDCOM import causes
| Genbox to create invalid RTF
|
|
| | Genbox was creating an RTF file that caused Microsoft Word
to
| go into an
| | infinite loop (which it shouldn't do, but that's another
| story) and it
| | took me ages to figure out what was going on. Actually I
gave
| up at one
| | point and just sent the files to Bill to let him figure it
| out, but I
| | *REALLY* wanted the report that I was trying to output, so I
| gave it
| | another go.
| |
| | To make a long story short, if you have the character '}' in
| your GEDCOM
| | file when you import it, Genbox will generate invalid RTF
when
| it goes
| | create a report. This is probably true for '{' as well. I
| had a note
| | which contained "[H.} some more text" as the result of a
typo
| was only
| | displaying "[H." on the screen, but was outputting the
entire
| string,
| | including the curly bracket which messed up the RTF because
it
| has
| | special significance there.
| |
| | You can find out whether you've got any of these characters
in
| your
| | notes by searching for them using the Notes tab of the
Search
| dialog.
| | Unfortunately, if there are any found you won't be able to
see
| where
| | they are in the text. If you have the original text
available
| to you
| | however, say in another genealogy program, and you delete
the
| characters
| | in the right place in the Genbox display, the "invisible"
| curly braces
| | will magically get deleted.
| |
| | You don't need to worry if you typed these characters in by
| hand,
| | because it looks like Genbox takes care of properly quoting
| them in that
| | case.
| |
| | Tom
| |
| |
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