[pstricks] Geneaology/pedigree charts.

John R. Culleton john at wexfordpress.com
Mon Jul 4 12:22:41 CEST 2005


On Sunday 03 July 2005 07:46 am, Herbert Voss wrote:
> John R. Culleton wrote:
> > I can create a chart of sorts using the plain TeX table writing
> > mechanism. See the following example:
> >
> > http://wexfordpress.com/ceili2.htm
> >
> > However users object to the lack of arrows linking children to
> > parents at various level. A copmlicaitn factor is the length of
> > the names, requiring one to either overlap entries (as in
> > ceili2.htm) or break names onto multiple lines in a table (as
> > in http://wexfordpress.com/ceili1.html )
> >
> > This makes the customary flowcharting software of little use.
> >
> > I wondered if anyone has attacked this problem in the pstricks or eplain
> > communities. A starting point would be to take my existing
> > chart and add arrows to it.
>
> Should be easy with pst-tree or \psmatrix from pst-node
>
> e.g.
> http://PSTricks.tug.org/main.cgi?file=examples#bracket
> http://PSTricks.tug.org/main.cgi?file=Nodes/nodes
>
> Herbert

Yes, pstree seems to do the trick. For an example please see 
http://wexfordpress.com/ceili2.htm. Source available if anyone
is interested. 

I wonder if there is a way to put arrowheads on the connecting lines and
still use \pstree?

Thanks for your continued support of Pstricks.



-- 
John Culleton





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