Problems with second marriages - see I63 (Florence (Warrington)) Language strings in files - reference from prefs file template filenames in prefs file - merge templates? break people & surnames files up into smaller fioles - see Rob Fugina below Bug with templates and list of people/surnames. children >10 on separate line. Done? children=9 on same line Option to be quiet about input lines not understood. Dale Lawrence: :A few items that are more like preference items than bugs. : :1. In the name list I have some last names that begin with lower case : but I would like them sorted case insensitive. : :2. In the surname list I would prefer if the names were just listed : accross the screen with a minimum of scrolling so I can use it : to index into the full name list. : :3. In the name list I see something like ((private) - ). I would prefer : the simpler (private). Rob Fugina (will do himself?): I'd like to see the 'people' and 'surnames' files broken up for the sake of size. Also, the status output that updates every item (individual or family) can actually bottleneck the whole process if you're running it over a modem or at a dumb terminal. The user could be updated every 10 or 100 items and still get the idea. It'd be nice to put the privacy parameters at the top so the user could decide how to make data private. Dale DePriest: Provide an option to use .htm instead of .html for dumb machines that can only have 3 digit extensions. Or maybe just use .htm all the time. Provide a packed option where there would be 10 people in one file. My idea is to use the last digit of the individuals id to cat together several records. Then add a full id as a name to link to inside the file. For some databases this can result in significant compression in the number of files and disk space usage. A new GEDCOM tag could be supported to have pictures. Some gedcom programs are starting to support this although it has always been defined in gedcom 5.5. Supporting the case where the gedcom file points to an image and the image is in .gif or .jpg format would be pretty easy. Pieter A.V.P. Donche: - Why not also include a language option in the beginning of the perl script next to the other options (or as a command line option), with the language strings already encoded in some list, such as @str_eng = ('Birth','Death',...); and @str_dut = ('Geboren','Overleden',...); somewhere in the perl script. and load the language sensitive strings from the value of the language option. - it would be nice if also strings coming from GEDCOM could be translated somewhere in the perl script. Now I still have the GEDCOM English abbreviations for Months, (MAY is MEI in Dutch, MARCH is MAART in Dutch, but MAR as an abbreviation is OK, the other months are the same English to Dutch ..) and AFT for after, instead of "NA" BEF for before, instead of "VOOR" BET for Between, instead of "TS" (abbrev. for "tussen") ABT for about, instead of "ROND" ... There might be other like that, but can't think of them for the moment. - there is still something going wrong with the graphical display of the tree, I beleive from 9 or more children onwards: the first 8 are put on one line, the 9th and following on the next, but the first 8 have no connections lines with their father, the 9th and following have connecting lines among them, but the vertical bar goes up into a 'broken mirror' netscape image. The error is propagated to the case of 17 children and more (3 lines, 8, 8, and the others, but badly connected also) remark: I downloaded the zip file and use the gif's from my own directory. - Could the list of surnames also be formatted (standard or via an option) such as: (seems more easy to scrutinize) A Acke, Aerleboudt, Aernoudts, Alders, Allaert, Amirotto, Artois, Aspeslagh B Baert, Bailleul, Baillie, Baksteen, Bammlez, Barbier, Barras, Barremaker, Bartier, ... Bob Minteer:   I use FamilyTreeMaker v4.4.   When inputting dates, it allows you to use "Abt." for approximates dates and "Bef." to denote dates before a certain date, and "Aft." for dates after a certain date.   Sometimes, it is good to have an approximate date where no specific date exists.   Is there an easy way to accomodate this with your perl script, gedcomToHTML ??