Re: [Gramps-users] using lifelines charts

[Don A. <dal...@us...>]

Denis,

I have not looked at the lifelines' report code, but I understand that
lifelines has a reputation for good reports. It should be possible to
port some of these to GRAMPS.

GRAMPS' underlying model for reports is pretty powerful, just not well
documented. I'm hoping that after the 0.8.2 and 0.9.0 releases that I
will have more time to devote to documenting this interface, improving
the existing reports, and creating new ones.

Don

On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 13:34, Denis Hainsworth wrote:
> I saw an email about wall charts and it reminded me about something I
> have been meaning to ask.  I used to use lifelines because it very
> powerful and more importantly has some of the coolest charts.  For a
> really cool wall chart I use the ps-anc8 report.  Anyway I have not
> bothered to look at the licenses or source, but a pipe dream I had was
> that perhaps it would be easy to write some shim code so that you could
> take lifelines reports as is and use them just like gramps reports. I
> think that would fill a niche that is somewhat lacking in the gramps
> software (not complaining! .. cause I love gramps and the fact that its
> been developed free is amazing.. thanks Don!)
> 
> Its easy enough for me to dump my data to gedcom .. import to Lines and
> generate all the reports I want.  I sugest this to anyone looking for
> other report options.  But it sure would be cool if those middle steps
> wern't needed .. maybe someone is less lazy than I am :)
> 
> -denis
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Don Allingham <dal...@us...>
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