On 2011-04-23 04:34 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote:
There can be many prefixes too, for example, 'Prof. Dr. xx'.
I am tempted to say that all this can easily become fairly
complicated depending on the cultural habits for which you want to
use such a scheme, so that at best it will always
On Sun Apr 24 2011 Leo wrote:
On 2011-04-23 04:34 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote:
I am tempted to say that all this can easily become fairly
complicated depending on the cultural habits for which you want to
use such a scheme, so that at best it will always only make a few
people happy.
On Sun Apr 24 2011 Roland Winkler wrote:
The degree field could be renamed to a more generic affix, which,
as I said, is a list of subfields anyway. The display of both the
name field and the degree / affix field are handled by the function
bbdb-display-name-organization. So if you like, you
On Sat Apr 23 2011 Leo wrote:
On 2011-04-22 23:36 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote:
A rather different question is more related to the BBDB internals. In
BDBB, names are entered into a hash table that is used for things like
completion (which, by the way, would also become much more complicated
Hello,
As stated in the subject line.
I still find the firstname + lastname + degree not able to cover some
use cases. For example: Professor Sir (Robert) Brian Heap CBE FRS.
vCard has N type that has:
surname, given name, additional, prefix, suffix
which is more accommodating.
Leo
On Fri Apr 22 2011 Leo wrote:
As stated in the subject line.
Good catch!
The degree field is possibly not named in the best way. For me,
the motivation has been in academics (which is a significant part of
my bbdb database). Yet I could envision other uses, too.
I still find the firstname +
On 2011-04-22 23:36 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote:
All these thought are not 100% mature and final. Suggestions welcome!
From a different perspective, I want to add that if someone doesn't
care about this field, he or she can completely ignore it and should
never notice that it is available.
* Leo fqy@tznvy.pbz [2011-04-23 03:46:05 +0800]:
On 2011-04-22 23:36 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote:
All these thought are not 100% mature and final. Suggestions welcome!
From a different perspective, I want to add that if someone doesn't
care about this field, he or she can completely
On 2011-04-23 03:52 +0800, Sam Steingold wrote:
there can be only one prefix but many suffixes, right? I suggest
keeping them in a list where first is the prefix and rest are the
suffixes, so that simple records without any prefixes suffixes
will have just nil there.
There can be many
On Sat Apr 23 2011 Leo wrote:
On 2011-04-23 03:52 +0800, Sam Steingold wrote:
there can be only one prefix but many suffixes, right? I suggest
keeping them in a list where first is the prefix and rest are the
suffixes, so that simple records without any prefixes suffixes
will have just
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