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Name format

Input rules

Surnames, first names, place names, and job titles are arbitrary strings of characters no longer than 25 and containing no spaces. For names consisting of multiple words, an underscore (_) is used instead of a space during input. In evaluations, this underscore is replaced by the program with a space.

Examples:

name	input
Walter	Walter
Karl-Heinz	Karl-Heinz
Meyer	Meyer
von Hunolstein	von_Hunolstein
Neunkirchen/Nahe	Neunkirchen/Nahe
Neunkirchen an der Nahe	Neunkirchen_an_der_Nahe
from Winterscheidt to Kirschhof	Too long (30 characters)
shoemaker's apprentice	shoemaker's apprentice
farmer and blacksmith	Farmer, blacksmith (two names)

Different spellings of names are different names for Omega; identical spellings represent the same name.

This is particularly important for place names: for example, the town of Neunkirchen an der Nahe should not be entered sometimes as Neunkirchen/Nahe and other times as Neunkirchen_an_der_Nahe . Different places with the same name should be distinguished by suffixes (examples: Neunkirchen/Nahe , Neunkirchen/Saar , Neunkirchen_bei_Mosbach , etc.).

Name indexes

Surnames, first names, place names, and job titles are stored in separate directories . When a name is entered that is not yet in the database, the program asks whether this new name should be added to the relevant name directory. This serves as a spell checker for the user and as a reminder that a name has already been entered.

Surnames and first names

Surnames should never be entered entirely in capital letters, as capitalization is done automatically in analyses (so Schmidt is better than SCHMIDT ). For sorting purposes in lists of people, you should always write prefixes of nobility in lowercase (examples: von_Hagen is better than Von_Hagen and d'Alembert is better than D'Alembert ).

For surnames, there is the concept of leading names . Leading names begin with a period and are not displayed in analyses.

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