[XeTeX] genealogical trees

[PETER WILSON]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jacobo Myerston <jmyerston at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jan 28, 2012 6:01 PM
>To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex at tug.org>
>Subject: [XeTeX] genealogical trees
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>I was wondering if somebody knows a latex package to represent  genealogical trees. If there isn't any what would the best way go? I was trying with tables and did not turn out to be that great. 
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>thanks,
>
>Jacobo
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About two computers, one country, and several years ago I used the lifelines program (lifelines.sourceforge.net) to get LaTeX to print genealogical trees plus associated text. I hope it still works, although I have to download it again, as I have some additions to make to my family tree reports. You have to put the data into a particular data format which, as far as I remember, is a fairly standard form for for genealogical data and then use lifelines to extract the particular information you want and output it, including generated family trees, as a Latex document.

Peter W.