Family descendancy list generator

Demo
Download code Zip, HTML/CSS/JavaScript

What it is

A web app for entering family descendancy information in plain text. When you print, you get a typeset descendancy list.

What it looks like

Family descendancy output — Sample output

Syntax

You can set the following optional fields at the beginning:
title — page title, won’t show any if empty
date — date modified, won’t show any if empty
section — section, won’t show any if empty
basegen — the base generation to use (useful when doing these kinds of lists over several generations); the default is 1
Use two spaces for indentation
For each person in the descendancy list, use - to indicate a child and + to indicate a spouse
A person can have multiple spouses
The syntax for a person line is name followed by a pipe-delimited list of events/properties (and these are freeform text, so you can put whatever you want in them)
You can add comments by putting # at the beginning of a line
To put a “Continued on the next page…” marker that breaks to the next page, use - @continued
To put a link note to another section, use > followed by whatever text you want it to say

About the code

It’s rough, unpolished, unprofessional hobby code. (I haven’t yet taken the time to clean it up. Or add tests. Or make it configurable beyond my needs.)

The zip has a README with basic instructions on installation and usage.

Changelog

0.1 (13 Jul 2024): Initial release