Customize the Genealogical Symbols lookup table
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Genealogical Symbols
Prerequisites exist for this feature The Genealogical Symbols tab can only be used if the prerequisite program |
Allows you to use Genealogical symbols instead of text abbreviations in reports, charts and the Gramps interface.
This tab gives you the possibility to use one font which is able to show all genealogical symbols. (Once configured see: Prerequisite to use Genealogical Symbols)
If you select the "use symbols" checkbox, Gramps will use the selected font if it exists.
This can be useful if you want to add phonetic in a note to show how to pronounce a name or if you mix multiple languages like Greek and Russian.
You can only configure the death symbol from this tab.
- List of Genealogical Symbols shown (listed in order shown at bottom screenshot):
- Female
- Male
- Asexuality, sexless, genderless
- Lesbianism
- Male homosexuality
- Heterosexuality
- Transgender, hermaphrodite (in entomology)
- Transgender
- Neuter
- Illegitimate
- Birth
- Baptism/Christening
- Engaged
- Marriage
- Divorce
- Unmarried partnership
- Buried
- Cremated/Funeral urn
- Killed in action
- Extinct
- Death
meaning | symbol | Unicode code point(s) | name |
---|---|---|---|
male | ♂ | U+2642 | Male Sign |
female | ♀ | U+2640 | Female Sign |
unknown | ⚪︎ | U+26AA | Medium White Circle |
hermaphrodite | ⚥ | U+26A4 | Interlocked Male and Female Sign |
neuter | ⚲ | U+26B2 | Neuter |
birth | * | U+002A | Asterisk |
baptisation, christening | ~ | U+007E | Tilde |
death | ✝︎ | U+271D | Latin Cross |
burial | ⚰︎ | U+26B0 | Coffin |
cremation | ⚱︎ | U+26B1 | Funeral Urn |
stillborn | ✝︎* | U+0086 U+002A | Latin Cross, Asterisk |
born illegitimately | *⃝ | U+002A U+20DD | Circled Asterisk |
born illegitimately | ⊛ | U+229B | Circled Asterisk Operator |
killed in action | ⚔︎ | U+2694 | Crossed Swords |
this line extinct | ‡ | U+2021 | Double Dagger |
approximate(ly) | ± | U+00B1 | Plus-Minus |
before | < | U+003C | Less-Than Symbol |
after | > | U+003E | Greater-Than Symbol |
engaged | ⚬ | U+26AC | Medium Small White Circle |
married | ⚭ | U+26AD | Marriage Symbol |
divorced | ⚮ | U+26AE | Divorce Symbol |
unmarried | ⚯ | U+26AF | Unmarried Partnership Symbol |
Prerequisite to use Genealogical Symbols
Initial setup
If the fontconfig prerequisite has been installed, then on the Genealogical Symbols tab select the Try to find button, Gramps will attempt to detect any suitable unicode text fonts that can be used.
When the search has completed select one of the fonts from the Choose font list and then select the checkbox:
Use symbols
Prerequisite
Prerequisite : python-fontconfig : Python bindings of fontconfig and its dependencies are required for displaying genealogical symbols
Use the Prerequisites Checker Do you have python-fontconfig installed? Run the Prerequisites Checker Addon and look for something similar to the following line:* python-fontconfig 0.5.0 (Success version 0.5.x is installed.) |
Contents
See also
- Tamura Jones expounds on Genealogical Symbols (the 'Unicode' section is particularly relevant)
- GEPS 039: Genealogical symbols in gramps
- Feature request: 9098 Gramps should be able to use genealogy symbols everywhere.
- Customize the Genealogical Symbols lookup table located in the Gramps user directory at: gramps\gen\utils\symbols.py
- based on the Gramps Discourse threads:
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