Considering the length of time 5.5.1 has been available, if a program doesn't already support it the odds are, imho, it never will. -----Original Message----- From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> To: gencmp <gencmp@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 11:55 pm Subject: Re: Whither GEDCOM? In <512e34c5.4820774@news.eternal-september.org>, on 02/27/2013 at 04:37 PM, Eagle@bellsouth.net (J. Hugh Sullivan) said: >Seems to me the problem has recently been discussed here. Users >demand unique abilities in programs and developers try to satisfy. >Even for an accomplished programmer methinks it would be very >difficult to accomodate every variation even with options. The draft GEDCOM 5.5.1 already supports the features I mentioned, but a lot of software doesn't support it yet. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENCMP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message