• SW: [software] Web Family Tree v2.1 released

    From VOICE News Service@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 2 14:05:09 2019
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    From: peterDESPAM@DESPAMpmoylan.org

    pcWeb Family Tree (WFT) has been updated to version 2.1. You can get it from
    http://www.pmoylan.org/pages/os2/wft.html
    or from
    ftp://ftp.pmoylan.org/software/wft_2.1.zip
    or from Hobbes incoming. If you want to see the manual before
    downloading, that is readable at
    http://www.pmoylan.org/cgi-bin/readinf.cmd?English/wft.inf+toc
    If you want to see what it does, check an example at
    http://www.pmoylan.org/cgi-bin/wft.cmd?D=moylan;P=I004

    Sucpported languages are Danish, German, English, French, and Dutch, but
    it is elementary to add support for other languages.

    WFT takes genealogical information from a GEDCOM file, and displays it
    as a set of web pages, one page per person. If you are doing any
    genealogical research you probably know what a GEDCOM file is. If not,
    you need to know that this is a common format used for storing family
    tree data. The package also includes some utilities for operating on
    GEDCOM files.

    The previous version of WFT was very slow to render the "ancestry" view
    of a person, because of a faulty implementation of index files. This has
    now been fixed, and the new rendering is fast.

    The WIFE/HUSB information in a GEDCOM file does not imply any
    information about marital status, which makes it awkward to display such information. For the English-language display, a decision has been taken
    to have no label at all for the "partner" person. This change has not
    been made for the other supported languages, but since all such labels
    are kept in a "language" file wft.xx.lng, the system manager can make
    any desired changes.

    -- Peter Moylan mailto://peter@pmoylan.org
    http://www.pmoylan.org

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