T.M. Sommers wrote: > On 2/24/2013 8:09 AM, Charlie Hoffpauir wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:17:51 -0500, "T.M. Sommers" >> <tmsommers2@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 2/18/2013 11:20 AM, J. Hugh Sullivan wrote: >>>> >>>> I use " marks to identify middle names of people who go by the middle >>>> name. My problem is switching from one genie program to another. The >>>> second reads the name in quotes as a nickname and shows it twice... >>>> James "Hugh" "Hugh" Sullivan. >>> >>> Why not use 'James Hugh "Hugh" Sullivan'? It clearly indicates that >>> Hugh is not only your real name (there is a 'Claude "Pete" Davis' in my >>> database, who was called 'Pete' although that was no part of his "real" >>> name), but it is the name you used. The duplication may look a little >>> odd, but it is unambiguous, and, I think, clear to anyone. >> >> That's an interesting suggestion, but I don't think it addresses the >> problem that the OP was seeing. If I understand his problem correctly, >> entering the name(s) as 'James Hugh "Hugh" Sullivan' would simply >> cause the name to appear as 'James Hugh "Hugh" "Hugh" Sullivan' when >> it transferred into the other program. > > Then I misunderstood the problem. It looks like a bug to me, in that case. > I think it's more a case of the semantics not being well-enough defined here http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pmcbride/gedcom/55gctoc.htm and different S/W authors and users have understood them in different ways. That's why I said that if you were to try to parse the data file to edit it you'd need to provide your program an understanding of each of the other programs' interpretation. -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk

On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:52:40 +0000, Ian Goddard <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: >I think it's more a case of the semantics not being well-enough defined >here http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pmcbride/gedcom/55gctoc.htm >and different S/W authors and users have understood them in different ways. Yes, Legacy presents names with quotes as NICKnames in a GEDCOM in addition to NAME. RM picks the name up as both a name and a nickname and lists both. Both programs operate as planned - I just should have use parens vice quotes for middle names 18 years ago. As others have said it's the difference in theories about how a program should work. I think all would agree that we look for different options. Hugh