From: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Genealogy and context
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 19:41:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B1B2ECE-4B63-4289-9C8E-F7AF31A8BA0B@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <704bd1f681a0f83115894bae8524460488f65160.camel@diepenvan.nl>
> Am 28.02.2021 um 19:32 schrieb David van Diepen <david@diepenvan.nl>:
>
> Genealogical information is stored as structured data. I have added a
> fragment of an Gramps XML file below. In such a file there are events,
> people, families and other groupings of data and these are linked by
> handles.
>
> What we would like to produce is a book with a number of blocks on
> every page describing a family: Father, mother, dates of birth and
> death, date of marriage, occupations and children. It would also be
> good it there are references to the grandparents.
Hi David,
I’m also using Gramps (for my personal family tree and for research for a historical novel), and I always wondered if it wouldn’t be possible to create nicer family trees and other charts using ConTeXt/MetaPost. But I still can’t handle XML in ConTeXt nor MetaPost myself.
I’d suggest to first create a sample layout to have a clear target – how would you like to present your data?
Since Gramps XML is not very straightforward (many crossreferences) it _might_ make sense to use a preprocessor (XSLT) and convert it to XML or Lua tables that you can use with the bibliography module.
I’m quite sure it’s possible to do it completely in ConTeXt/Lua, but if you’d like to have configurable output, you’d probably create something similar to the bib module.
I’m looking forward to what you will create! (And I think it would be an excellent topic for a talk at the ConTeXt meeting and/or an article in the ConTeXt journal!)
Hraban
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2021-02-28 18:32 David van Diepen
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2021-03-03 14:16 ` Hans Hagen
2021-03-03 15:33 David van Diepen
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