Customize the Genealogical Symbols lookup table
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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.
If the fontconfig prerequisite has been installed, then on the Genealogical Symbols tab select the Try to find button, Gramps will attempt to detect any suitable unicode text fonts that include gylphs for all the required symbols.
After clicking the Try to find button in the Genealogical Symbols preferences tab
For a Windows 10 computer with 191 font families installed, 1 Unicode font (Segoe UI Symbol) was found that included all the required glyphs.
When the search has completed select one of the fonts from the Choose font list and then select the checkbox:
Use symbols
- List of Genealogical Symbols shown (listed in order shown in the What you will see: Preview at the bottom of the tab):
meaning | symbol | Unicode code point(s) | name |
---|---|---|---|
female | ♀ | U+2640 | Female Sign |
male | ♂ | U+2642 | Male Sign |
gender unknown | ⚪︎ | U+26AA | Medium White Circle |
Lesbianism | ⚢ | U+26A2 | Doubled female sign |
Male homosexuality | ⚣ | U+26A3 | Doubled male sign |
Heterosexuality | ⚤ | U+26A4 | Interlocked female and male sign |
hermaphrodite | ⚥ | U+26A4 | Interlocked Male and Female Sign |
transgender | ⚦ | U+26A6 | Male with stroke sign |
neuter | ⚲ | U+26B2 | Neuter |
born illegitimately | ⊛ | U+229B | Circled Asterisk Operator |
birth | * | U+002A | Asterisk |
baptism, christening | ~ | U+007E | Tilde |
engaged | ⚬ | U+26AC | Small White Circle |
married | ⚭ | U+26AD | Marriage Symbol |
divorced | ⚮ | U+26AE | Divorce Symbol |
unmarried | ⚯ | U+26AF | Unmarried Partnership Symbol |
burial | ⚰︎ | U+26B0 | Coffin |
cremation | ⚱︎ | U+26B1 | Funeral Urn |
killed in action | ⚔︎ | U+2694 | Crossed Swords |
this line extinct | ‡ | U+2021 | Double Dagger |
death | ✝︎ | U+271D | Latin Cross |
Not included in Preview | |||
stillborn | ✝︎* | U+0086 U+002A | Latin Cross, Asterisk |
born illegitimately | *⃝ | U+002A U+20DD | Circled Asterisk |
approximate(ly) | ± | U+00B1 | Plus-Minus |
before | < | U+003C | Less-Than Symbol |
after | > | U+003E | Greater-Than Symbol |
Where are the Symbol definitions are stored in Gramps
The definitions for Genealogical Symbols for Gramps labels are located in the Gramps application directory. The relative file subpath is: https://github.com/gramps-project/gramps/blob/maintenance/gramps51/gramps\gen\utils\symbols.py
- The exact Gramps application directory path varies by OS. Files & sub-directories within are often hidden and write-protected.:
- Linux
- Windows
- MacOS
A backup copy of the file is archived on GitHub at :
https://github.com/gramps-project/gramps/blob/maintenance/gramps51/gramps/gen/utils/symbols.py
all_symbols = [ # Name UNICODE SUBSTITUTION (_("Female"), '\u2640', ""), (_("Male"), '\u2642', ""), (_("Asexuality, sexless, genderless"), '\u26aa', ""), (_("Lesbianism"), '\u26a2', "oo"), (_("Male homosexuality"), '\u26a3', "oo"), (_("Heterosexuality"), '\u26a4', "oo"), (_("Transgender, hermaphrodite (in entomology)"), '\u26a5', ""), (_("Transgender"), '\u26a6', ""), (_("Neuter"), '\u26b2', ""),
(_("Illegitimate"), '\u229b', ""), (_("Birth"), '\u002a', "*"), (_("Baptism/Christening"), '\u007e', "~"), (_("Engaged"), '\u26ac', "o"), (_("Marriage"), '\u26ad', "oo"), (_("Divorce"), '\u26ae', "o|o"), (_("Unmarried partnership"), '\u26af', "o-o"), (_("Buried"), '\u26b0', "d"), (_("Cremated/Funeral urn"), '\u26b1', "d"), (_("Killed in action"), '\u2694', "d"), (_("Extinct"), '\u2021', ""), ]
# genealogical death symbols DEATH_SYMBOL_NONE = 0 DEATH_SYMBOL_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 = 16
# The following is used in the global preferences in the display tab. # Name # UNICODE SUBSTITUTION death_symbols = [(_("Nothing"), "", ""), ("x", "\u03a9", "x"), (_("Skull and crossbones"), "\u2620", "+"), (_("Ankh"), "\u2625", "+"), (_("Orthodox cross"), "\u2626", "+"), (_("Chi rho"), "\u2627", "+"), (_("Cross of Lorraine"), "\u2628", "+"), (_("Cross of Jerusalem"), "\u2629", "+"), (_("Star and crescent"), "\u262a", "+"), (_("West Syriac cross"), "\u2670", "+"), (_("East Syriac cross"), "\u2671", "+"), (_("Heavy Greek cross"), "\u271a", "+"), (_("Latin cross"), "\u271d", "+"), (_("Shadowed White Latin cross"), "\u271e", "+"), (_("Maltese cross"), "\u2720", "+"), (_("Star of David"), "\u2721", "+"), (_("Dead"), _("Dead"), _("Dead")) ]
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.
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.
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.
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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
- Gramps application directory for:
- Linux
- Windows
- MacOS
- Tamura Jones expounds on Genealogical Symbols (the 'Unicode' section is particularly relevant)
- based on the Gramps Discourse threads: