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From: Karla Huebner <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Hierarchical ordering of sources in future TMG?
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 20:34:28 -0500
In-Reply-To: <1017746860.3ca995acad27e@webmail.anst.uu.se>


I agree that hierarchical sourcing would be wonderful! Add to wish list.

Karla Huebner

At 01:27 PM 4/2/02 +0200, you wrote:
>
>
>Another thing on my wish-list, and this is fundamental to the way I work, is
>the possibility to order sources hierarchically, the way one would
>normally do
>in making a list of references in a dissertation. TMG seems to force me to
>either make an arbitrary numbered order based on when a source was first
>used,
>or an equally arbitrary alphabetical order with primary sources and secondary
>sources intermingled.
>
>...
>
>What I WISH is this:
>
>-- The possibility to order and work with sources hierarchically in whichever
>way I like and in as many levels as I need. This can be done by combining the
>master repository list and the master source list into a new kind of source
>list. The structure will be similar to the collapsible folders with which
>every
>user of MS Windows is acquainted.
>
>-- Easy access to this hierarchy of sources through a dropdown (or popup)
>menu
>from the data entry field.
>
>...



>Regards
>Jonas Kuschner
>
>----------------------------------------------
>Jonas Kuschner,
>MA, PhD-student, Uppsala University, Sweden
>http://www.afro.uu.se
>Editor of Släkt och Hävd - Sweden's leading journal of genealogy since 1950
>http://www.genealogi.net/Veta_mer_om_GF/SoH/soh.htm
>
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