[pstricks] Geneaology/pedigree charts.

[Joseph Hogg]

Very nice tree and dog, too. I would very much appreciate seeing the
source code for this since I plan to use PSTricks for human family
trees.

Thank you,

Joe Hogg
Joseph.Hogg at bigfoot.com


On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 10:22 +0000, John R. Culleton wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
>