Family Historian User Group

The 'Segoe UI' problem has been discussed elsewhere and may be a bug... Unless it appears in the text copied from the website... which it doesn't(?) as pasting into Word doesn't have the same problem. Although, the CSS requires font-family: monospace for the links so perhaps FH is honouring that th...

In word processors you can print wide tables in landscape mode:

• Section break
• New section - Format - Landscape to hold the table
• Section Break
• Continue in portrait mode

Won't solve all problems - but may solve a useful number?

Wish list Requirement Amended 20:25 13-12-2022 Diagrams to have option to present facts in strict fact date order Requirement An option to chose to present the facts selected in a text scheme in date order rather than tag group order. Benefit Allows users (and output readers) to view a timeline for...

I just suggested that Undated items to be at the top after Name etc. Doesn't that cover it? if an item is in a text scheme and has a date it goes in the time-line in sort date or date order If an item in a text scheme does not have a date it appears at the top after the name (in the order in which i...

Thanks Helen (and Mike) Thinking in "Bug hunting mode" rather than "Wish List Specifying mode" 0 @N5@ NOTE This should be plain text 1 CONT 1 CHAN 2 DATE 13 DEC 2022 3 TIME 10:17:01 We need to see if those having trouble have the troublesome notes in the above format - but possib...

I don't really understand the concept of a 'rich text only' mode that has been discussed. Currently in FH (and ignoring any glitches/bugs for now) if I'm typing text into the rich-text box then that is plain text unless I add some formatting to it in which case it would become rich text. I agree, b...

Would it be simpler to refer simply to matching the order on the Property Box Facts tab? I'm not sure it would. The text scheme allows you to state which facts are to be diagrammed - i.e. not everything in the Property Box Fact Tab. It's for CP, but given that I think I want them to refer to the te...

I think we might ask those who have opened Wish List Requests to revisit them and either add a note saying the item is no longer required (and why) or, bump them by reviewing and summarising their status (commenting on any posts added as part of this Blitz) How are the MJH group going to prioritise ...

Wish list Requirement Diagrams to have option to present facts in strict fact date order Requirement An option to chose to present the facts selected in a text scheme in date order rather than tag group order. Benefit Allows users (and output readers) to view a timeline for individuals in a diagram...

... I do run into occasional issues where what I thought was a plain text note, acquired a typeface and size that I didn't set . (Maybe this happens mostly with an apparently empty text box?) Usually this happens long after the previous editting of that item so I can't decide how the issue arose bu...

But I do want the ability to alter what Ctrl+V does, via the default setting proposed. There, I am not with you. Many of us know Ctrl-V to mean "dump whatever is on the clipboard into the application and let the application sort out what it all means" - I would not want to change that. Li...

OK, I have had a quick go at the oldest;
Order facts in diagram by date (16095)

Is that what you had in mind, or have I only given the pot a stir?

It would be really helpful if one or more of you could volunteer to help with a 'Wish List Blitz', working from oldest request to newest, with an aim to formulate the Wish List item contents so it can be added to the Wish List (or discarded if no longer needed, or there is insufficient input to und...

I think we are now in danger of having a "vigorous agreement"!

Are we getting "hung up" about the difference between Fields in the underlying file which are marked as "Rich Text", as opposed to Fields that are not Plain text that happens to reside in a "Rich Text" field From what people have said before CP seems to have structurall...

Do we start an "Accessibility Topic" to act as "click-bait" to catch accessibility issues. I'd support this -- I've had on my to-do list for a long time an article for the KB about FH Accessibility and a new topic would feed nicely into that. ... The need for this page arose fro...

Issues where it may not do what users expect - documentation clarification as a minimum, but possibly system issues to fix. Not sure what you mean by this. If users have misunderstood documentation in the past (as is very easy to do with CP documentation) , that's been 'on them' to fix -- why shoul...

(with the short-cuts available for people that like shortcuts - "the WordStar / WordPerfect generation"?) Shortcuts are an accessibility requirement, not a generational preference. Very true We have identified a Ctrl-Shft-V (paste unformatted) short-cut requirement (together with matching...

To be fair, I'm not clear how CP can fix them [issues created by a "buggy" rich text system], without knowing the user's intent for each note? Other than by writing a plugin ... :lol: A CP written plug-in is a sensible way to go because this requirement hopefully is a transient one, so no...

My original in plain text Mike's comments in italics My responses in Blue We want a non rich text option because? The current rich text option gives too many problems? So define them as bugs and look to get them fixed? We've done that. CP have not fixed them all. CP suggested posting a Plain Text On...

Good Morning (it is in the UK - well morning at least, good if you like the cold) Welcome to FHUG. Many of the names you supply look very similar, even identical. Identical names can be "merged" - only you can't, as far as I know easily do that! If they are identical and have identical sou...

Are we slipping into the danger that Adrian has warned me of a number of times of trying to specify "the solution" rather than what we require - which we may be losing sight of? We want a non rich text option because? The current rich text option gives too many problems? So define them as ...

Are we almost saying we want another Date Format, that will "compact" a date such as "between Jan 1974 and Mar 1974" to "between Jan and Mar 1974" - the "rule" being that all bar the last instance of common elements can be removed? "between Jan 1974 and M...

I can see where you are going but can I ask others what is their experience of the paste shortcuts. There seems to be some variation but I think we need to judge the general consensus and "go with the flow": Ctrl-V - seems always to "paste what is on the clipboard" and the "...

I'm not sure that HTML does require pairs to match in the way you've suggested, or at least this seems to work perfectly well when rendered by Edge/Chrome: Browsers are pretty tolerant of malformed HTML - mainly because the standards kept changing - particularly with the "requirements" fo...