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UK Almanac?
« on: July 11, 2021, 09:22:26 »
Is there a UK Almanac? Or has anyone created one?


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Re: UK Almanac?
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2021, 09:47:35 »
Hi,

We do not have a UK almanac for the moment. Ancestris is the result of volunteer work only. If you are willing to contribute, it would be great !!!

It does not take long. It just consists of putting events in an excel spreadsheet in a given format. Choosing the events and making that list is the main work.

If you are keen to help, I will tell you the format to produce.

What do you think ?

Best regards,
Frederic

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Re: UK Almanac?
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2021, 10:41:18 »
Yes, I'm up for that. I had a look at the help page but if you have some tips let me know.

Thanks.

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Re: UK Almanac?
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2021, 10:55:54 »
Hi,

Great !!!
I have sent you an email with the file to fill in.

Many thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Frederic

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Re: UK Almanac?
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2021, 11:49:33 »
OK the UK Almanac is looking good in the latest version.

Except, that there is another visibility issue.

The markers on the timeline are so thin that they are hardly noticeable and the "sensitivity" area for the mouseover to bring up the dialog is very narrow.



In the dialog itself, at the bottom, there is the field that displays the country, but it is prefixed by the label (in English) "Colors:", something lost in translation here.


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Re: UK Almanac?
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2021, 11:53:07 »
Hi,

We will see what we can do with the markers' size.

Regarding "Colors", not sure what you mean... You would prefer: "Colours" ?

Cheers,
Frederic

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Re: UK Almanac?
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2021, 11:59:22 »
I would have expected it to read "Country:"


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Re: UK Almanac?
« Reply #7 on: July 16, 2021, 12:03:44 »
Yes, indeed.
The thing is that each country can be of a different color. And because the list is obviously a list of countries, saying "colors" it signals to the user that he can change colors. In order to save space: "Colors" was more concise than "Country colors".
Does it make more sense ?

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Re: UK Almanac?
« Reply #8 on: July 16, 2021, 12:05:45 »
I understand the logic now. However, is it not unlikely a user will be including two different countries events in a timeline?



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Re: UK Almanac?
« Reply #9 on: July 16, 2021, 12:12:48 »
If you take a country like Belgium, you could want to see Netherlands, Belgium and France information.

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Re: UK Almanac?
« Reply #10 on: July 16, 2021, 12:13:45 »
OK, you're right!


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Re: UK Almanac?
« Reply #11 on: July 16, 2021, 14:15:57 »
Yes, indeed.
The thing is that each country can be of a different color. And because the list is obviously a list of countries, saying "colors" it signals to the user that he can change colors. In order to save space: "Colors" was more concise than "Country colors".
Does it make more sense ?
Yeap, but I guess, mygrove's idea would be more meaningfull by reading "Country(ies)" instead of "Color(s)".
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Re: UK Almanac?
« Reply #12 on: August 18, 2024, 06:27:12 »
How did you go with a UK Almanac? Are you happy to share?
I would like to do an Australian Almanac, not sure how to get started, I cannot find much on the subject in the documentation.
Can anyone help get me started?

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Re: UK Almanac?
« Reply #13 on: August 18, 2024, 08:20:25 »
Hello David,

An almanac is in fact a plain textfile. Created and maintained by for example, Notepad or Notepad++
So certainly not with a texteditor like Word.

It consists of lines in a certain format.
I will add 2 examples, the US Almanac, created and maintained by Avernes (Francois), and the Dutch Almanac, which I did.

In the header of the file, there is explanation of how to do it.
All lines in the header start with #, which denotes they are comment lines.
Your language code is au as far as I know, so where there is nl in my almanac or us in Avernes us-almanac, you would use au.

When you are finished with the almanac, or when you want to test a few lines to see how they look, send that text file to Frederic, and ask him to add it.

So I suggest you read the 2 files and see if you understand how it should be done.
Now the US almanac uses states, but the Dutch one does not, as we dont have states in our country only provinces.

Recently the TITLE parameter was added but that is also described in the file header.
I suggest, you use the US alamanc in Ancestris, and then have the file I send you next to it.
That way you can see what information goes where in Ancestris, before you start your own one.

Also, search for Almanac in the userguide to see how things work and what settings you can, or have to use.

Hope this is enough info to start with.
 

Regards,
Tineke