257 lines
9.0 KiB
Groff
257 lines
9.0 KiB
Groff
.TH gramps 1 "@VERSION@" "August 2005" "@VERSION@"
|
|
.SH NAME
|
|
gramps \- Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System.
|
|
|
|
.SH SYNOPSIS
|
|
.B gramps
|
|
.RB [ \-?|\-\^\-help ]
|
|
.RB [ \-\^\-usage ]
|
|
.RB [ \-\^\-version ]
|
|
.RB [ \-O|\-\^\-open=
|
|
.IR FILE
|
|
.RB [ \-f|\-\^\-format=
|
|
.IR FORMAT ]]
|
|
.RB [ \-i|\-\^\-import=
|
|
.IR FILE
|
|
.RB [ \-f|\-\^\-format=
|
|
.IR FORMAT ]]
|
|
.RB [ \-i|\-\^\-import=
|
|
.IR ... ]
|
|
.RB [ \-o|\-\^\-output=
|
|
.IR FILE
|
|
.RB [ \-f|\-\^\-format=
|
|
.IR FORMAT ]]
|
|
.RB [ \-a|\-\^\-action=
|
|
.IR ACTION ]
|
|
.RB [ \-p|\-\^\-options=
|
|
.IR OPTIONSTRING ]]
|
|
.RB [
|
|
.IR FILE
|
|
.RB ]
|
|
|
|
.SH DESCRIPTION
|
|
.PP
|
|
\fIGramps\fP is a Free/OpenSource genealogy program. It is written in Python,
|
|
using the GTK+/GNOME interface.
|
|
Gramps should seem familiar to anyone who has used other geneology programs
|
|
before such as \fIFamily Tree Maker (TM)\fR, \fIPersonal Ancestral
|
|
Files (TM)\fR, or the GNU Geneweb.
|
|
It supports importing of the ever popular GEDCOM format which is used world
|
|
wide by almost all other genealogy software.
|
|
|
|
.SH OPTIONS
|
|
.TP
|
|
.BI gramps " FILE"
|
|
When \fIFILE\fR is given (without any flags) then it is
|
|
opened and an interactive session is started. The rest of the options
|
|
is ignored. This way of launching is suitable for using gramps
|
|
as a handler for genealogical data in e.g. web browsers. This invokation
|
|
can accept any data format native to gramps, see below.
|
|
.br
|
|
|
|
.TP
|
|
.BI \-f,\-\^\-format= " FORMAT"
|
|
Explicitly specify format of \fIFILE\fR given by preceding \fB\-O\fR,
|
|
\fB\-i\fR, or
|
|
\fB\-o\fR option. If the \fB\-f\fR option is not given for any \fIFILE\fR,
|
|
the format of that file is guessed according to its extension.
|
|
.br
|
|
|
|
Formats
|
|
available for opening are \fBgrdb\fR (guessed if \fIFILE\fR ends with
|
|
\fB.grdb\fR), \fBgramps\-xml\fR (guessed if \fIFILE\fR ends with
|
|
\fB.gramps\fR), and \fBgedcom\fR (guessed if \fIFILE\fR ends with \fB.ged\fR).
|
|
.br
|
|
|
|
Formats
|
|
available for import are \fBgrdb\fR, \fBgramps\-xml\fR, \fBgedcom\fR,
|
|
\fBgramps\-pkg\fR (guessed if \fIFILE\fR ends with \fB.gpkg\fR), and
|
|
\fBgeneweb\fR (guessed if \fIFILE\fR ends with \fB.gw\fR).
|
|
.br
|
|
|
|
Formats available for export are \fBgrdb\fR, \fBgramps\-xml\fR, \fBgedcom\fR,
|
|
\fBgramps\-pkg\fR, \fBwft\fR (guessed if \fIFILE\fR ends with \fB.wft\fR),
|
|
\fBgeneweb\fR, and \fBiso\fR (never guessed, always specify with
|
|
\fB\-f\fR option).
|
|
|
|
.TP
|
|
.BI \-O,\-\^\-open= " FILE"
|
|
Open \fIFILE\fR.
|
|
Only \fBgrdb\fR, \fBgramps\-xml\fR, and \fBgedcom\fR formats can be
|
|
opened directly. For other formats, you will need to use the import option
|
|
which will set up the empty database and then import data into it.
|
|
.br
|
|
|
|
Only a single file can be opened. If you need to combine data from several
|
|
sources, you will need to use the import option.
|
|
|
|
.TP
|
|
.BI \-i,\-\^\-import= " FILE"
|
|
Import data from \fIFILE\fR.
|
|
.br
|
|
|
|
When more than one input file is given, each has to be preceded by \fB\-i\fR
|
|
flag. The files are imported in the specified order,
|
|
i.e. \fB\-i\fR \fIFILE1\fR \fB\-i\fR \fIFILE2\fR
|
|
and \fB\-i\fR \fIFILE2\fR \fB\-i\fR \fIFILE1\fR might produce different
|
|
gramps IDs in the resulting database.
|
|
|
|
.TP
|
|
.BI \-o,\-\^\-output= " FILE"
|
|
Export data into \fIFILE\fR. For \fBiso\fR format, the \fIFILE\fR is actually
|
|
the name of directory the gramps database will be written into.
|
|
For \fBgrdb\fR, \fBgramps\-xml\fR, \fBgedcom\fR, \fBwft\fR, \fBgramps\-pkg\fR,
|
|
and \fBgeneweb\fR, the \fIFILE\fR is the name of the resulting file.
|
|
.br
|
|
|
|
When more than one output file is given, each has to be preceded
|
|
by \fB\-o\fR flag. The files are written one by one, in the specified order.
|
|
|
|
.TP
|
|
.BI \-a,\-\^\-action= " ACTION"
|
|
Perform \fIACTION\fR on the imported data. This is done after all imports
|
|
are succesfully completed. Currently available actions are \fBsummary\fR
|
|
(same as Reports->View->Summary), \fBcheck\fR (same as Tools->Database
|
|
Processing->Check and Repair), and \fBreport\fR (generates report, needs
|
|
the \fIOPTIONSTRING\fR supplied by the \fB\-p\fR flag).
|
|
.br
|
|
|
|
The report option string should satisfy the following conditions:
|
|
.br
|
|
It must not contain any spaces.
|
|
If some arguments need to include spaces, the string should
|
|
be enclosed with quotation marks.
|
|
Option string must list pairs of option names and values.
|
|
Withing a pair, option name and value must be separated by the equality sign.
|
|
Different pairs must be separated by commas.
|
|
.br
|
|
|
|
Most of the report options are specific for every report. However, there some
|
|
common options.
|
|
|
|
.BI "name=reportname"
|
|
.br
|
|
This mandatory option determines which report
|
|
will be generated. If the supplied report_name does not correspond to any
|
|
available report, the error message will be printed followed by the list of
|
|
available reports.
|
|
|
|
.BI "show=all"
|
|
.br
|
|
This will produce the list of names for all options
|
|
available for a given report.
|
|
|
|
.BI "show=optionname"
|
|
.br
|
|
This will print the description of
|
|
the functionality supplied by the optionname, as well as what are the
|
|
acceptable types and values for this option.
|
|
|
|
.br
|
|
Use the above options to find out
|
|
everything about a given report.
|
|
|
|
.LP
|
|
When more than one output action is given, each has to be preceded
|
|
by \fB\-a\fR flag. The actions are performed one by one, in the specified order.
|
|
|
|
.BI "Operation"
|
|
.br
|
|
If the first argument on the command line does not start with dash (i.e. no
|
|
flag), gramps will attempt to open the file with the name given by the first
|
|
argument and start interactive session, ignoring the rest of the command line
|
|
arguments.
|
|
|
|
.LP
|
|
If the \fB\-O\fR flag is given, then gramps will try opening
|
|
the supplied file name and then work with that data, as instructed by the
|
|
further command line parameters.
|
|
|
|
.LP
|
|
With or without the \fB\-O\fR flag, there could be multiple imports,
|
|
exports, and actions specified further on the command line by using \fB\-i\fR,
|
|
\fB\-o\fR, and \fB\-a\fR flags.
|
|
|
|
.LP
|
|
The order of \fB\-i\fR, \fB\-o\fR, or \fB\-a\fR options does not matter. The
|
|
actual order always is: all imports (if any) -> all exports (if any) ->
|
|
all actions (if any). But opening must always be first!
|
|
|
|
.LP
|
|
If no \fB\-O\fR or \fB\-i\fR option is given, gramps will launch its main
|
|
window and start the usual interactive session with the empty database,
|
|
since there is no data to process, anyway.
|
|
|
|
.LP
|
|
If no \fB\-o\fR or \fB\-a\fR options are given, gramps will launch its main
|
|
window and start the usual interactive session with the database resulted
|
|
from all imports. This database resides in the \fBimport_db.grdb\fR
|
|
under \fB~/.gramps/import\fR directory.
|
|
|
|
.LP
|
|
The error encountered during import, export, or action, will be either
|
|
dumped to \fIstdout\fR (if these are exceptions handled by gramps) or or
|
|
to \fIstderr\fR (if these are not handled). Use usual shell redirections
|
|
of \fIstdout\fR and \fIstderr\fR to save messages and errors in files.
|
|
|
|
.SH EXAMPLES
|
|
.TP
|
|
To import four databases (whose formats can be determined from their names) and then check the resulting database for errors, one may type:
|
|
\fBgramps\fR \fB\-i\fR \fIfile1.ged\fR \fB\-i\fR \fIfile2.tgz\fR \fB\-i\fR \fI~/db3.gramps\fR \fB\-i\fR \fIfile4.wft\fR \fB\-a\fR \fIcheck\fR
|
|
.TP
|
|
To explicitly specify the formats in the above example, append filenames with appropriate \fB\-f\fR options:
|
|
\fBgramps\fR \fB\-i\fR \fIfile1.ged\fR \fB\-f\fR \fIgedcom\fR \fB\-i\fR \fIfile2.tgz\fR \fB\-f\fR \fIgramps-pkg\fR \fB\-i\fR \fI~/db3.gramps\fR \fB\-f\fR \fIgramps-xml\fR \fB\-i\fR \fIfile4.wft\fR \fB\-f\fR \fIwft\fR \fB\-a\fR \fIcheck\fR
|
|
.TP
|
|
To record the database resulting from all imports, supply \fB\-o\fR flag (use \fB\-f\fR if the filename does not allow gramps to guess the format):
|
|
\fBgramps\fR \fB\-i\fR \fIfile1.ged\fR \fB\-i\fR \fIfile2.tgz\fR \fB\-o\fR \fI~/new-package\fR \fB\-f\fR \fIgramps-pkg\fR
|
|
.TP
|
|
To import three databases and start interactive gramps session with the result:
|
|
\fBgramps\fR \fB\-i\fR \fIfile1.ged\fR \fB\-i\fR \fIfile2.tgz\fR \fB\-i\fR \fI~/db3.gramps\fR
|
|
.TP
|
|
Finally, to start normal interactive session type:
|
|
\fBgramps\fR
|
|
|
|
.SH CONCEPTS
|
|
Supports a python\-based plugin system, allowing import and export writers,
|
|
report generators, tools, and display filters to be added without modification
|
|
of the main program.
|
|
.LP
|
|
In addition to generating direct printer output, report generators also
|
|
target other systems, such as \fIOpenOffice.org\fR, \fIAbiWord\fR, HTML,
|
|
or LaTeX to allow the users to modify the format to suit their needs.
|
|
|
|
.SH KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
|
|
|
|
.SH FILES
|
|
.LP
|
|
\fI${PREFIX}/bin/gramps\fP
|
|
.br
|
|
\fI${PREFIX}/share/gramps\fP
|
|
.br
|
|
\fI${HOME}/.gramps\fP
|
|
|
|
.SH AUTHORS
|
|
Donald Allingham \fI<don@gramps-project.org>\fR
|
|
.br
|
|
\fIhttp://gramps.sourceforge.net\fR
|
|
.LP
|
|
This manpage was originally written by:
|
|
.br
|
|
Brandon L. Griffith \fI<brandon@debian.org>\fR
|
|
.br
|
|
for inclusion in the Debian GNU/Linux system.
|
|
.LP
|
|
This manpage is currently maintained by:
|
|
.br
|
|
Alex Roitman \fI<shura@gramps-project.org>\fR
|
|
.br
|
|
|
|
.SH DOCUMENTATION
|
|
The user documentation is available through standard GNOME Help browser
|
|
in the form of Gramps Manual. The manual is also available in XML format
|
|
as \fBgramps-manual.xml\fR under \fIdoc/gramps-manual/$LANG\fR in the official
|
|
source distribution.
|
|
.LP
|
|
The developer documentation can be found on the
|
|
\fIhttp://developers.gramps-project.org\fR site.
|