Re: Anthropological style Family Lines Graph

<< Unfortunately, I don't think that you could create something exactly
like you are looking for. >>

It looks like there is a way to create your own custom shapes for nodes in
Graphviz:

https://graphviz.org/faq/#FaqCustShape

But I don't know what would be involved in getting Gramps to use them.


On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 12:22 PM Nick Hall via Gramps-users <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 26/09/2022 10:04, Jason Lee wrote:
> > Is it possible to customize the Family Lines Graph report output with
> > standard Anthropological genealogical chart conventions? I.e.,
> > Male = equilateral triangle sitting on base
> > Female = circle
> > Non-specific gender = square
> > Deceased = diagonal line across from lower left to upper right
> > Married to = [equals sign]
> > Divorced from = [equals sign with diagonal line across from lower left to
> > upper right]
> > Parent child connection = vertical line
> > Sibling connection = horizontal line
> >
> > An example is this template:
> > https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/make-a-kinship-diagram-online
> >
> > If so, how to I customize the output?
>
> The graph reports use Graphviz to create the report.  It would be fairly
> easy to modify the report to use any node and edge formatting supported
> by Graphviz.  See the following link for documentation:
>
> https://graphviz.org/documentation/
>
> Unfortunately, I don't think that you could create something exactly
> like you are looking for.
>
> The alternative would be to write your own code to layout and draw the
> report.
>
> Using cairo graphics would be a good option, but you would need some
> programming experience in order to write the code.
>
> https://www.cairographics.org
>
>
> Nick.
>
>
>
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