Addon:GenealogyTree
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The GenealogyTree addon uses LaTeX genealogytree (the Pedigree and genealogical tree diagrams package) to create professional looking trees for the active person. The following reports are available:
Contents
Usage
From the menu select Reports > Trees > [Xxxxx] Tree... where [Xxxxx] is one of the available reports.
For a large tree you will have to select a large paper size.
Features
- Creates professional looking family trees for the active person.
- Output is only to
tex
orpdf
files.
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Tree examples
Example output for each tree report.
Ancestor tree
Creates a tree chart showing the ancestors of the active person.
Descendant tree
Creates a tree chart showing the descendants of the active person.
Grandparent tree
Sandclock tree
Sandclock Tree for a Family
Prerequisites
Before any of these reports can be used you will need the following prerequisites installed:
- texlive including the textlive-pictures package which contains LaTeX genealogytree (the Pedigree and genealogical tree diagrams package)
The texlive-pictures package contains genealogytree.
The texlive-fontsextra package is required for non-latin fonts.
Linux
On debian/Ubuntu
- for PDF output file format needs LaTex support
- need 'texlive-pictures' package
or download and install 'genealogytree' for the last version:
$ mkdir -p ~/texmf/tex/latex/genealogytree
or /var/lib/texmf, /usr/local/share/texmf
$ cp ./genealogytree/* ~/texmf/tex/latex/genealogytree
$ texhash ~/texmf
Same for 'tcolorbox', and maybe for fonts : 'libertines', 'mweights, etc ...
$ cp ~/.texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map ~/.texmf/tex/latex/libertine/map/libertine.map
$ updmap --enable Map=~/texmf/tex/latex/libertine/map/libertine.map
- need 'texlive-latex-extra' (for xkeyval) and 'latex-tools' (for shellesc) or install the base [1]!
- can also update 'pdftexcmds' and 'pgf'
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Apple MacOS
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Microsoft Windows
Quick instruction how to enable these reports on Windows.
Install it and run, create one of several type of reports in Reports->Trees menu.
Make sure to select large enough paper size in options as these report currently don't scale well.
You can output PDF(".pdf" extension) and LaTeX(".tex" extension) type files for the reports.
As our Microsoft Windows TeX/LaTeX environment you will use MiKTeX(from https://miktex.org/ ) The MiKTeX program environment is pretty large so we download the basic installation (190MB in size) from https://miktex.org/download/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/setup/basic-miktex-2.9.6520-x64.exe
Start the MiKTeX installer and during install select "install for me only" and "Install missing packages on-the-fly"
After successful installation of MiKTeX (it can take some time) start the Windows command console (cmd.exe) and type:
lualatex FILENAME
where FILENAME is full pathname of .tex file you previously create in Gramps. MiKTeX package manager will automatically download missing
packages. When all is finished pdf file will be created in directory in which you start this command. I recommend then that you run "MiKTeX
Settings" from Windows StartMenu and change "on-the-fly" settings to "No" or "Always ask"
If everything goes well you will now have option in Gramps to create such reports in both latex and pdf format.
(Instructions based on https://sourceforge.net/p/gramps/mailman/message/36223716/ )
Issues
See also:
- Feature request 10223 LaTeX genealogytree reports