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From: Michel Vuijlsteke <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Genbox is making assumptions about places?
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 04:45:22 +0200
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In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20040722115459.01d57828@mail.internode.on.net>


There's a number of ways to change this behaviour, amongst others:

- Change the label by changing the marriage (MARR) tag. Click on the
chain link icon to the right of the event type drop-down on the event
tag, then delete "at church" in the "local" field (bottom right) or
change is to something else.

- Make different marriage tags, with one (_MARR_CHURCH for instance)
for a church wedding, another (e.g. _MARR_CIVIL) for civil marriage
ceremonies, etc.

Reparsing is a sore point. I don't like it either. The thing is, once
you understand what it does and why, you sort of work around it. But I
remain pretty annoyed at the interpretation of anything lower case as
a place modifier (I have to enter "Rue Savane" instead of "rue Savane"
or lose the "rue").

Michel

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:00:55 +0930, Robin Lamacraft <> wrote:
> I go to enter a place for a marriage as
> Place: Hauvich, Roxburgh, Scotland
>
> And after I leave this field, Genbox _insists_ on parsing this place into
> Place: Roxburgh, Scotland
> *and*
> At Church: Hauvich
>
> Why does it make the assumption that the first field is a *church* when it
> is not?
>
> How do you stop it from re-parsing what you put in the place field?
>
> This kind of automation is not very helpful - there does not seem to be any
> way to stop it from doing this that I can find.
>
> Robin
>
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