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Revision as of 20:00, 29 March 2020
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temporary Workaround This article is not intended for casual use. The Genealogical Symbols feature was a recent addition in the Gramps 5.1 version. Some function are not yet configurable through the interface. |
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Genealogical Symbols
Allows you to use Genealogical symbols instead of text abbreviations in reports, charts and the Gramps interface.
This tab gives you the possibility to use one font which is able to show all genealogical symbols. (Once configured see: Prerequisite to use Genealogical Symbols)
If you select the "use symbols" checkbox, Gramps will use the selected font if it exists.
This can be useful if you want to add phonetic in a note to show how to pronounce a name or if you mix multiple languages like Greek and Russian.
You can only configure the death symbol from this tab.
- List of Genealogical Symbols shown (listed in order shown at bottom screenshot):
- Female
- Male
- Asexuality, sexless, genderless
- Lesbianism
- Male homosexuality
- Heterosexuality
- Transgender, hermaphrodite (in entomology)
- Transgender
- Neuter
- Illegitimate
- Birth
- Baptism/Christening
- Engaged
- Marriage
- Divorce
- Unmarried partnership
- Buried
- Cremated/Funeral urn
- Killed in action
- Extinct
- Death
meaning | symbol | Unicode code point(s) | name |
---|---|---|---|
male | ♂ | U+2642 | Male Sign |
female | ♀ | U+2640 | Female Sign |
unknown | ⚪︎ | U+26AA | Medium White Circle |
hermaphrodite | ⚥ | U+26A4 | Interlocked Male and Female Sign |
neuter | ⚲ | U+26B2 | Neuter |
birth | * | U+002A | Asterisk |
baptisation, christening | ~ | U+007E | Tilde |
death | ✝︎ | U+271D | Latin Cross |
burial | ⚰︎ | U+26B0 | Coffin |
cremation | ⚱︎ | U+26B1 | Funeral Urn |
stillborn | ✝︎* | U+0086 U+002A | Latin Cross, Asterisk |
born illegitimately | *⃝ | U+002A U+20DD | Circled Asterisk |
born illegitimately | ⊛ | U+229B | Circled Asterisk Operator |
killed in action | ⚔︎ | U+2694 | Crossed Swords |
this line extinct | ‡ | U+2021 | Double Dagger |
approximate(ly) | ± | U+00B1 | Plus-Minus |
before | < | U+003C | Less-Than Symbol |
after | > | U+003E | Greater-Than Symbol |
engaged | ⚬ | U+26AC | Medium Small White Circle |
married | ⚭ | U+26AD | Marriage Symbol |
divorced | ⚮ | U+26AE | Divorce Symbol |
unmarried | ⚯ | U+26AF | Unmarried Partnership Symbol |
Customizing the date labels
Prior to the Genealogical Symbols feature being implemented, birth and death data were explicitly labeled in English for the Active Person. This data was labeled with a simple abbreviation of label where more compact display was needed for the other relatives.
Data | text label | abbreviated |
---|---|---|
birth | Birth | b. |
baptism | bap. | |
christening | chr. | |
death | Death | d. |
burial | Burial | bur. |
married | Marriage | mar. |
divorced | Divorce | div. |
The Relationship category view to the right shows the superseded English label method.
It was determined that these English labels did not encourage localization. An arbitrary set of symbols had been proposed that was deemed more universal than English terms and abbreviations.
Data | abbreviated |
---|---|
birth | * |
baptism | ~ |
christening | ~ |
death | + |
burial | d. |
married | ⚭ |
divorced | ⚮ |
The Relationship category view to the right shows the language agnostic labeling method created for the 5.1 version of Gramps.
The Relationship category view to the right also shows the language agnostic labeling method created for the 5.1 version of Gramps. (The Gramplet bars have been turned off to reduce distracting clutter.) The data for Sibling 2 has been changed to display the baptismal and burial date text styling variants. These are only shown in this view when an explicit date for birth (or death) is missing. Note that these dates are italicized to highlight that they are not actual birth or death dates.
Next Section
Genealogy symbols preferences
Advanced Manipulation of Settings - manually editing the gramps.ini
preferences file stored in the Gramps version sub-folder of the user directory
Initially, the preferences section related to Genealogical symbols might be created with commented out lines:
[utf8] ;;available-fonts=[] ;;death-symbol=13 ;;in-use=0 ;;selected-font=
Name | symbol identifier |
Displays | Gramps code |
---|---|---|---|
DEATH_SYMBOL_NONE | 0 | ||
DEATH_SYMBOL_X | x | 1 | |
DEATH_SYMBOL_SKULL | ☠ | 2 | |
DEATH_SYMBOL_ANKH | ☥ | 3 | |
DEATH_SYMBOL_ORTHODOX_CROSS | ☦ | 4 | |
DEATH_SYMBOL_CHI_RHO | ☧ | 5 | |
DEATH_SYMBOL_LORRAINE_CROSS | ☨ | 6 | |
DEATH_SYMBOL_JERUSALEM_CROSS | ☩ | 7 | |
DEATH_SYMBOL_STAR_CRESCENT | ☪ | 8 | |
DEATH_SYMBOL_WEST_SYRIAC_CROSS | ♰ | 9 | |
DEATH_SYMBOL_EAST_SYRIAC_CROSS | ♱ | 10 | |
DEATH_SYMBOL_HEAVY_GREEK_CROSS | ✚ | 11 | |
DEATH_SYMBOL_LATIN_CROSS | ✝ | 12 | |
DEATH_SYMBOL_SHADOWED_LATIN_CROSS | ✞ | 13 | |
DEATH_SYMBOL_MALTESE_CROSS | ✠ | 14 | |
DEATH_SYMBOL_STAR_OF_DAVID | ✡ | 15 | |
DEATH_SYMBOL_DEAD | Dead | 16 |
[utf8] available-fonts=['Segoe UI Symbol'] death-symbol=12 in-use=1 selected-font='Segoe UI Symbol'
See also
- Genealogical Symbols - Gramps feature user documentation
- GEPS 039: Genealogical symbols in gramps
- Feature request: 9098 Gramps should be able to use genealogy symbols everywhere.
- Customize the Genealogical Symbols lookup table located in the Gramps application directory inside: gramps\gen\utils\symbols.py
- Tamura Jones expounds on Genealogical Symbols (the 'Unicode' section is particularly relevant)
- based on the Gramps Discourse threads: