Re: [Gramps-devel] Rép : About your plugin for gramps

[Nick H. <nic...@ho...>]

Harald,

I have been looking at generating tables of contents and indexes for 
Gramps reports recently.  I will post a patch for PDF output shortly.

It is also quite easy to add the appropriate commands to the LaTeX 
output to produce an index.  I don't have much experience with LaTeX, 
but I have a few comments from my testing so far:

1. The main problem I saw was with the tables.  The text didn't align 
well in some cases.  There was also a lot of code generated.  I think 
that your new approach resulting in simpler code is the right way to go.

2. Should we be using Gramps style sheets for LaTeX output?  Leaving the 
formatting to LaTeX is probably more consistent with the LaTeX philosophy.

3. In an earlier post you suggested that it would be a good idea to 
split the index marks into an entry and sub-entry (separate the names 
from the dates).  This would be useful for PDF output as well (and also 
ODF?).

I can test your latest version when it is available.

Nick.


On 15/11/11 08:09, Harald Rosemann wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I'm on the way to prepare a new version of LaTeXDoc.py
> hoping to present it in the near future.
> It is characterised by another aproach in the construction of tables
> leading to less amount of code lines in python and in LaTeX as well
> accompanied by reduced number calculations.
>
> The new thing is:
> Up to now only the last column may have large contents.
> In the new version any (reasonable) number of columns
> at any position may have large contents
> which will be broken up into multiple lines
> to fit the table to paper width.
>
> Harald
>
>
> Am 14.11.2011 19:40, schrieb Nick Hall:
>> On 14/11/11 17:27, François Boone wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your hint tu use sqlite. It works well
>>> In this database there is a field CHANGE defined as integer in some tables.
>>> Is this field means a date and hour of the last change?
>>> If yes, how can i convert this integer in date?
>> It is the last change time for the record.  The integer value is the
>> number of seconds since 1 Jan 1970.
>>
>> Have you considered modifying the output from Gramps LaTeX reports?
>>
>> Harald Rosemann made some improvements recently, but I believe that
>> Gramps LaTeX output could benefit from further enhancements.  It should
>> be possible to produce some very professional looking output by default
>> from Gramps.  Unfortunately, not much effort has been spent on achieving
>> this.
>>
>> Joachim Breitner actually produced a 401 page family history book using
>> Gramps and LaTeX.
>>
>> https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/archives/492-401-page-family-book-published.html
>>
>> It would be nice if we could include reports with this quality of output
>> within Gramps.
>>
>> I think that it would be quite easy to achieve results similar to the
>> output of book-latex.ll very quickly by modifying our existing code.
>>
>> Nick.
>>
>>
>>> Thank you
>>> François
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Le 2011-11-13 à 19:27, Doug Blank a écrit :
>>>
>>>> [Responding to you and the gramps-developers list, so the conversation
>>>> will be available to future users, and other may have other ideas.]
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am an user of Gramps and it seems that gramps doen't export all fields in gedcom. So when I export my database in gedcom, I lost lot of informations.
>>>> Yes, correct. GEDCOM does not contain all of the information that
>>>> Gramps can. This is documented here:
>>>>
>>>> http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gramps_and_GEDCOM
>>>>
>>>>> However, your plugin, ExprotRaw, seems export all informations. I threw a glance on my raw file. I can understand somme parts but some other parts seem to me very odd.
>>>> This export was designed to be able to see the raw data, and used in
>>>> testing import/exports to make sure that all information is valid.
>>>>
>>>>> Could you give me somme hints to understand the "grammar" of your file?
>>>> This is Python representations of the data. There isn't a grammar or
>>>> schema, unfortunately. You'd have to read the Python code to know what
>>>> this is.
>>>>
>>>>> I would like to use it to write a program in ruby to be able to get reports in LaTeX like lifelines made with book-latex.ll
>>>>> Yes, I know, I can export from gramps to Latex, however I do not like the results.
>>>> There is a better solution: use the Sqlite Export. You should be able
>>>> to use that directly. (Although we do have a LaTeX document output
>>>> type in Gramps, I believe).
>>>>
>>>>> Thank you very much for reply
>>>> Sure! Please use the mailing list for follow-ups. Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> -Doug
>>>>
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