Overview
The Names Section includes properties related to name handling.
Properties
Pronoun Substitution
GedSite may be configured to use a pronoun in place of a person's name when rendering person name variables. A name variable is eligible to be rendered as a pronoun when these conditions are met:
- The variable must refer to the subject, the person whose person entry is being written.
- The variable must be creating the first output of the sentence template.
- The variable must be a full name variable.
Variables that yield the first name or some other subset of the name are not eligible.
- The variable must not include an option that requires the full name to be rendered.
Several programs have variables that require a full name, or options that may be added to a name variable to force the full name to be rendered.
If the above conditions are met, GedSite will apply an additional rule that is determined by the Pronoun Substitution property. The rules are described in the list below. The rules are listed in "less pronouns" to "more pronouns" order.
- Never
- GedSite will never substitute a pronoun for the subject's name.
- Last person
- GedSite will substitute a pronoun for the subject's name when the subject was the last person referenced by a name variable.
- Last person of same gender
- GedSite will substitute a pronoun for the subject's name when the subject was the last person referenced by a name variable, or when an intervening person had the opposite gender from the subject.
This rule addresses a common occurrence where a subject shares several events with a spouse. This rule is the default.
- Always except first
- GedSite will always substitute a pronoun for the subject's name except for the first reference to the subject's name in a Tag Set.
- Always
- GedSite will always substitute a pronoun for the subject's name.
Suffix Delimiter
The Suffix Delimiter property affects name formatting. It determines the characters that appear between a surname and a suffix. The default is "Comma and space".
- Space
- Inserts a space between the surname and suffix, for example, "John Smith Jr."
- Comma and space
- Inserts a comma and space between the surname and suffix, for example, "John Smith, Jr."
The Suffix Delimiter property does not apply to TMG projects. GedSite uses TMG Name Styles to format names.
Name Links
The Name Links property determines when names are converted to links in Person Entry Tag Sets. This processing applies to tag sentence templates in Tag Sets where a variable produces a name, and only affects names of people who are members of the site.
The choices are:
- All references to person
- All references to a person will be links.
- First reference to person only
- Only the first reference to a person in a Tag Set will be a link. Subsequent references in the same Tag Set will not be links. This is the default.
Historical Note
Prior to GedSite v5.02, there was no Name Links property and all references to a person were links. The default value for the property is First reference to a person only. To add the property without changing the output from the Make site command, when GedSite opens a property file last edited in a version prior to the addition of this property, GedSite sets the Name Links property to "All references to person". If you have an existing property file last edited with GedSite v5.01 or previous, and you want the new behavior, you must modify the property setting and save the property file.