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Amroth Prouts

Bringing genealogy into the 21st century, by creating a family story in ebook format. Ideas about book creation taken from progit2.

Places should be locatable using decimal degrees (as used in most gps systems) instead of Latitude and Longitude.

Tools used:

  1. gramps

  2. atom editor

  3. FamilySearch.org

  4. asciidoctor

  5. getmyancestors To downloads gedcom files from FamilySearch.org

How To Generate the Book

You can generate the e-book files manually with Asciidoctor. If you run the following you may actually get HTML, Epub, Mobi and PDF output files:

$ bundle install
$ bundle exec rake book:build
Converting to HTML...
 -- HTML output at progit.html
Converting to EPub...
 -- Epub output at progit.epub
Converting to Mobi (kf8)...
 -- Mobi output at progit.mobi
Converting to PDF...
 -- PDF output at progit.pdf