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From: Karla Huebner <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Attaching Exhibits
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 09:08:24 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <3CACB4A1.AFAB343C@infoave.net>


The individual captioning Richard suggests sounds to me like adding a Roles
capacity to photo captions. Don't know how it would be programmed, but I
like the idea. In a sense, it's like having an Anecdote or History tag with
lots of witnesses--you still have to decide which one it should print with,
as this would depend on the focus of the report and other changeable factors.

Karla Huebner

At 02:16 PM 4/4/02 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Hi Mac,
>
>Using your "group wedding photo" let's assume that it shows the bride,
>Mary Jones; groom, Bill Smith; best man, George Smith (Bill's
>brother); bride's maid, Sally Jones (Mary's sister): and all four
>parents. As I attach the photo to each individual, I would want
>descriptions like:
>
>Caption: George Smith, best man [:CR:] Wedding of Mary Jones and Bill
>Smith [:CR:] 3 June 1899: George is the younger brother of the groom,
>Bill Smith. The parents of Bill and George are the couple standing to
>the left rear of George.
>
>Caption: Bill Smith, groom [:CR:] Wedding of Mary Jones and Bill Smith
>[:CR:] 3 June 1899: Bill is the elder brother of the his best man,
>George Smith. The parents of Bill and George are the couple standing
>to the left rear of George.
>
>In other words I would not want the same caption for all eight persons
>shown in the photo. It seems very redundant to have the same image
>shown eight times in Exhibit Log. However, I do not have a clue how
>one could attain the same versatility and have the image appear one
>time. My description, caption and topic would vary depending on to
>whom or to what the photo is attached. Since a group wedding photo
>could contain a very large number of relatives from both families, it
>would seem that each exhibit would have to have a table that included
>fields for every variable that a user might want to apply. While such
>an approach is certainly possible, it would seem to violate the KISS
>principle and just create different problems in an attempt to make it
>easier.
>
>If you have something else in mind, and can present a means that is
>not overly complicated, I am sure that it would be considered for a
>future release.
>
>Note: I do not recommend using group photos in Exhibit Log, as I have
>implied by the statements above. I use it as an example only. The
>Slideshow Manager (SSM) in Family Tree SuperTools would, IMO, be a
>better place to display group photos and I assume that TMG5 will have
>similar features. Even in SSM, it is desirable to duplicate the same
>image as many times as needed so as to provide a description that
>pertains to one person in the photo.
>
>
>Richard Brogger

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