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Gramps addons for Isotammi project / Isotammen Gramps-lisäosia
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README.md needs revision to warn that styles and links are lost during merges. #6

Closed emyoulation closed 2 years ago

emyoulation commented 2 years ago

The Special handling for notes should advise that text stylings (italic, bold, underline, font face and size, foreground and background colors) and Links are removed during a "Combine text from all notes" merge. Styling is only preserved when selecting the "Use text from primary note only" option.

The Note markup format is extremely fragile. (The note's "text" chunk is followed by a series of named "style" chunks with a range of "start" and "end" character positions.) It does not use hidden tags embedded inline. 

  <notes>
    <note handle="_e96786299766d15816aca4bb6fc" change="1651796678" id="N000000" type="Person Note">
      <text>John Smith was here
note
source
Event
place
family
citation
</text>
      <style name="underline">
        <range start="25" end="31"/>
      </style>
      <style name="fontcolor" value="#cc0000">
        <range start="44" end="50"/>
      </style>
      <style name="link" value="gramps://Person/handle/e96785701031a9037687461f347">
        <range start="0" end="10"/>
      </style>
    </note>
  </notes>

all the style chunks are dropped during the merge.

kkujansuu commented 2 years ago

Fixed so that styles and links are preserved after merging.