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Customize the Genealogical Symbols lookup table

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==Customizing the date labels==[[File:GenealogicalSymbolsRelationshipsView_defaultRelationships-51category-view-50.png|right|450px|thumb|450px|Fig. {{#var:chapter}}.{{#vardefineecho:figure|{{#expr:{{#var:figure}}+1}}}} "Relationships Category view in Gramps version 5.0]]Prior to the Genealogical Symbols" feature being implemented, birth and death data were explicitly labeled in English for the Active Person. This data was labeled with a simple abbreviation of label where more compact display was needed for the other relatives. -  The Relationship View - default]]category view to the right shows the superseded English label method.
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[[File:Relationships-category-view-51.png|right|450px|thumb|Fig. {{#var:chapter}}.{{#vardefineecho:figure|{{#expr:{{#var:figure}}+1}}}} Relationships Category view in Gramps version 5.1]]It was determined that these English labels did not encourage localization. An arbitrary set of symbols had been proposed that was deemed more universal than English terms and abbreviations.
 
The Relationship category view to the right shows the language agnostic labeling method created for the 5.1 version of Gramps.
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[[File:GenealogicalSymbolsRelationshipsView_default-51.png|right|thumb|450px|Fig. {{#var:chapter}}.{{#vardefineecho:figure|{{#expr:{{#var:figure}}+1}}}} "Genealogical Symbols" - Relationship View - default]]The Relationship category view to the right also shows the language agnostic labeling method created for the 5.1 version of Gramps. However, the Gramplet bars have been turned off to be less distracting. Also, the data for Sibling 2 has been changed to display how baptismal and burial dates are displayed when an explicit birth and death date has not been defined. Note that these dates of italicized.
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[[File:GenealogicalSymbolsRelationshipsView_textSub-51.png|right|thumb|450px|Fig. {{#var:chapter}}.{{#vardefineecho:figure|{{#expr:{{#var:figure}}+1}}}} "Genealogical Symbols" - Relationship View - text substitutions]]
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