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    From Andrew Hatchett@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 16 14:52:33 2022
    Trying to clean up my Groups

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  • From Robert Riches@21:1/5 to Andrew Hatchett on Sat Sep 17 03:22:59 2022
    On 2022-09-16, Andrew Hatchett <agh3rd@gmail.com> wrote:
    Trying to clean up my Groups

    Best of luck cleaning up your groups. It has been rather quiet
    here the past couple/few years. I think your post is the first
    one I have seen in at least a couple of months.

    --
    Robert Riches
    spamtrap42@jacob21819.net
    (Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

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  • From Nigel Reed@21:1/5 to Andrew Hatchett on Mon Sep 19 12:52:34 2022
    On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 14:52:33 -0700 (PDT)
    Andrew Hatchett <agh3rd@gmail.com> wrote:

    Trying to clean up my Groups

    I don't think many groups are active any more but I keep them around
    just in case.

    Of course, you can always start a thread and see where it goes.

    --
    End Of The Line BBS - Plano, TX
    telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23

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  • From Ian Goddard@21:1/5 to Andrew Hatchett on Tue Sep 20 14:55:21 2022
    On 16/09/2022 22:52, Andrew Hatchett wrote:
    Trying to clean up my Groups

    Does anyone have thoughts about posting useful source code here?

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  • From Dennis@21:1/5 to ian_ng@austonley.org.uk on Tue Sep 20 10:11:14 2022
    On Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:55:21 +0100, Ian Goddard
    <ian_ng@austonley.org.uk> wrote:

    On 16/09/2022 22:52, Andrew Hatchett wrote:
    Trying to clean up my Groups

    Does anyone have thoughts about posting useful source code here?

    For example?

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    Dennis

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  • From Ian Goddard@21:1/5 to Dennis on Wed Sep 21 11:51:40 2022
    On 20/09/2022 15:11, Dennis wrote:
    On Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:55:21 +0100, Ian Goddard
    <ian_ng@austonley.org.uk> wrote:

    On 16/09/2022 22:52, Andrew Hatchett wrote:
    Trying to clean up my Groups

    Does anyone have thoughts about posting useful source code here?

    For example?


    I have writtem for my own use, a program inspired by the old Windows cardfile,exe. It can file text, tabular and image cards.

    All can be created by pasting from the clipboard and all can be reading
    files: .txt, .csv and various image formats such as .jpg & .png. Any individual card can also be saved to a file of appropriate format. It
    doesn't support mixed type of data on a single card but cards of
    different types can be mixed freely.

    Text and tabular cards can also be created blank for manual data entry.

    The saved format for a collection of files is text, any images being
    saved in base64. A saved file can be merged into the current file.

    An extension also attempts to simplify entering text from PDFs with an
    OCR layer. These notoriously have lines of original texxt fragments.
    This will simply join t paragraph's worth of fragments back into a
    single paragraph - it won't deal with misread characters or fragments
    which hav got out of order.

    It's developed in Lazarus/Free Pascal. Although it's developed on Linux
    Lazarus is available for Windows & Macs as well.

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  • From Tony Proctor@21:1/5 to Ian Goddard on Sat Sep 24 13:33:49 2022
    On 20/09/2022 14:55, Ian Goddard wrote:
    On 16/09/2022 22:52, Andrew Hatchett wrote:
    Trying to clean  up my Groups

    Does anyone have thoughts about posting useful source code here?

    I always considered these groups to be Q&A, but I have published several items of free genealogical software, the most sophisticated being SVG-FTH
    (https://parallaxviewpoint.com/SVG-FTG/), designed to produce a graphical depiction of your tree for the Web (using SVG), but also allow interaction
    with your tree and the addition of custom functionality.

    Although I have since left the world of public genealogy, this is still supported because I use it myself. :-)

    Tony

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  • From Tony Proctor@21:1/5 to Ian Goddard on Sat Sep 24 13:35:03 2022
    On 20/09/2022 14:55, Ian Goddard wrote:
    On 16/09/2022 22:52, Andrew Hatchett wrote:
    Trying to clean  up my Groups

    Does anyone have thoughts about posting useful source code here?

    I always considered these groups to be Q&A, but I have published several items of free genealogical software, the most sophisticated being SVG-FTH
    (https://parallaxviewpoint.com/SVG-FTG/), designed to produce a graphical depiction of your tree for the Web (using SVG), but also allow interaction
    with your tree and the addition of custom functionality.

    Although I have since left the world of public genealogy, this is still supported because I use it myself. :-)

    Tony

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  • From Joe Makowiec@21:1/5 to Tony Proctor on Sat Sep 24 15:40:53 2022
    On 24 Sep 2022 in soc.genealogy.computing, Tony Proctor wrote:

    I always considered these groups to be Q&A, but I have published
    several items of free genealogical software, the most sophisticated
    being SVG-FTH (https://parallaxviewpoint.com/SVG-FTG/), designed to
    produce a graphical depiction of your tree for the Web (using SVG),
    but also allow interaction with your tree and the addition of custom functionality.

    Thanks! That looks interesting. Having moved server a couple of years
    back (!), I want to get my tree back up, and I still haven't found a
    really adequate means to do so.

    --
    Joe Makowiec
    http://makowiec.org/
    Email: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe
    Usenet Improvement Project: http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/

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  • From Nigel Reed@21:1/5 to Joe Makowiec on Sat Sep 24 15:08:19 2022
    On Sat, 24 Sep 2022 15:40:53 -0000 (UTC)
    Joe Makowiec <makowiec@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 24 Sep 2022 in soc.genealogy.computing, Tony Proctor wrote:

    I always considered these groups to be Q&A, but I have published
    several items of free genealogical software, the most sophisticated
    being SVG-FTH (https://parallaxviewpoint.com/SVG-FTG/), designed to
    produce a graphical depiction of your tree for the Web (using SVG),
    but also allow interaction with your tree and the addition of custom functionality.

    Thanks! That looks interesting. Having moved server a couple of years
    back (!), I want to get my tree back up, and I still haven't found a
    really adequate means to do so.


    Have you looked at the TNG genealogy software?


    https://tngsitebuilding.com/

    You can see a sample of it working with my tree with 10,000+
    individuals.

    https://family.sysadmininc.com



    --
    End Of The Line BBS - Plano, TX
    telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23

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  • From Tony Proctor@21:1/5 to Tony Proctor on Tue Sep 27 09:10:29 2022
    On 24/09/2022 13:33, Tony Proctor wrote:
    On 20/09/2022 14:55, Ian Goddard wrote:
    On 16/09/2022 22:52, Andrew Hatchett wrote:
    Trying to clean  up my Groups

    Does anyone have thoughts about posting useful source code here?

    I always considered these groups to be Q&A, but I have published several items of free genealogical software, the most sophisticated being SVG-FTH
    (https://parallaxviewpoint.com/SVG-FTG/), designed to produce a graphical depiction of your tree for the Web (using SVG), but also allow interaction
    with your tree and the addition of custom functionality.

    Although I have since left the world of public genealogy, this is still supported because I use it myself.  :-)

    Tony

    In view of other software being mentioned here, I'll just add a few differentiators for SVG-FTG which may, or may not, be something specifically of
    interest:

    1) It's free but with lots of documentation and instructional videos
    2) It can run online or offline
    3) Files can be emailed to a recipient if internet privacy is required
    5) Recipients do not require a subscription to any external site
    5) It is extremely customisable, allowing functionality to be added to buttons on people/families

    I had very specific requirements when I wrote this, but I appreciate that many people will want a product that just gives them all their options
    straight out of the box, and that's great; I understand.

    Tony

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  • From Steve Hayes@21:1/5 to ian_ng@austonley.org.uk on Mon Oct 3 13:52:10 2022
    On Wed, 21 Sep 2022 11:51:40 +0100, Ian Goddard
    <ian_ng@austonley.org.uk> wrote:

    I have writtem for my own use, a program inspired by the old Windows >cardfile,exe. It can file text, tabular and image cards.

    All can be created by pasting from the clipboard and all can be reading >files: .txt, .csv and various image formats such as .jpg & .png. Any >individual card can also be saved to a file of appropriate format. It >doesn't support mixed type of data on a single card but cards of
    different types can be mixed freely.

    Text and tabular cards can also be created blank for manual data entry.

    Can it print output on to cards?

    There were a couple of programs available for older versions of PAF
    that could do that, but they probably won't work with modern printers.


    --
    Steve Hayes
    Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/
    http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afgen/

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  • From Martin B@21:1/5 to Tony Proctor on Mon Oct 3 10:16:43 2022
    On Tuesday, 27 September 2022 at 09:10:35 UTC+1, Tony Proctor wrote:
    On 24/09/2022 13:33, Tony Proctor wrote:
    On 20/09/2022 14:55, Ian Goddard wrote:
    On 16/09/2022 22:52, Andrew Hatchett wrote:
    Trying to clean up my Groups

    Does anyone have thoughts about posting useful source code here?

    I always considered these groups to be Q&A, but I have published several items of free genealogical software, the most sophisticated being SVG-FTH
    (https://parallaxviewpoint.com/SVG-FTG/), designed to produce a graphical depiction of your tree for the Web (using SVG), but also allow interaction
    with your tree and the addition of custom functionality.

    Although I have since left the world of public genealogy, this is still supported because I use it myself. :-)

    Tony
    In view of other software being mentioned here, I'll just add a few differentiators for SVG-FTG which may, or may not, be something specifically of
    interest:

    1) It's free but with lots of documentation and instructional videos
    2) It can run online or offline
    3) Files can be emailed to a recipient if internet privacy is required
    5) Recipients do not require a subscription to any external site
    5) It is extremely customisable, allowing functionality to be added to buttons on people/families

    I had very specific requirements when I wrote this, but I appreciate that many people will want a product that just gives them all their options
    straight out of the box, and that's great; I understand.

    Tony

    SVG-FTG looks very interesting and I intend to take a more detailed look at it. Topola Viewer - https://pewu.github.io/topola-viewer/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwtvqVBhCVARIsAFUxcRsfh1IreaVO3QSke-6Ycy_MFtar2qOBo0E69Q6i_jNgo2RL4hs2nxUaArltEALw_wcB#/ does something
    similar but I am not enough of a programmer to use the code directly in my website - instead I embed the Topola Viewer webpage - see https://www.burnelluk.info/topola.html
    An alternative to TNG is the open source Webtrees (fork of PHPGedView) which has an interactive chart - see https://burnelluk.info/burnelltree/index.php?route=%2Fburnelltree%2Fmodule%2Ftree%2FChart%2FTree&xref=I5

    Martin

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  • From Ian Goddard@21:1/5 to Steve Hayes on Fri Oct 7 14:16:50 2022
    On 03/10/2022 12:52, Steve Hayes wrote:
    On Wed, 21 Sep 2022 11:51:40 +0100, Ian Goddard
    <ian_ng@austonley.org.uk> wrote:

    I have writtem for my own use, a program inspired by the old Windows
    cardfile,exe. It can file text, tabular and image cards.

    All can be created by pasting from the clipboard and all can be reading
    files: .txt, .csv and various image formats such as .jpg & .png. Any
    individual card can also be saved to a file of appropriate format. It
    doesn't support mixed type of data on a single card but cards of
    different types can be mixed freely.

    Text and tabular cards can also be created blank for manual data entry.

    Can it print output on to cards?

    There were a couple of programs available for older versions of PAF
    that could do that, but they probably won't work with modern printers.


    The presentation is card-index like but the data it it presents can be arbitrarily long text as well as tabular data and images. There would
    be no guarantee that the data could be fitted onto a card format. As it
    stands I haven't added a print function as that wasn't it's purpose

    Having said that the program is modular with the intention that custom
    card formats can be added so it wouldn't be impossible to change than.
    In fact I had reading the vcard format (
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard ) in mind as a possible extra. I
    wonder if anyone has considered adapting vcard as a genealogical record
    format.

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