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I use the LifeLines genealogical software to help organize all my data. LifeLines is usually a database program for Unix systems, but there is an unofficial DOS version.
The beauty of LifeLines is that it allows anyone to create their own report generators. I wrote the report generator which uses my database to generate the individual HTML pages and indexes. You can download this this report generator, html.dn by right-clicking on the link there, or from the archives at ftp.cac.psu.edu. I also have two other programs which help in generating the bibliography: the LifeLines report sources_bib and a C program bib2html.c.
My burial index , (a list of my mother's relatives buried in Iowa cemeteries, by cemetery), was generated with my LifeLines report burial_index and a C program bury.c.
The textual descriptions for various people may contain certain odd-looking "words", such as \em, \item, \sc, ... These and other words beginning with a backslash are directives to LaTex. LaTex is a powerful document production language I use to help typeset the text when I produce paper output instead of html pages. Since the HTML isn't processed through LaTex, the LaTex commands remain in the text. You can pretty much ignore them. Some of the more common commands you might see:
You may also see extraneous percent signs (%) in the text which are also due to my efforts to get both LaTex and HTML code from the same text. (% is the LaTex "Comment character" meaning LaTex ignores everything following a %.) If you look at the HTML source for an individual's page, you might see even more Latex commented out of the HTML display.
The LaTex text is useful to me because of my LifeLines report book-latex which builds very nice looking "books" (register style) from my genealogy database.
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