LifeLines
Documentation
LifeLines
Version 3.0.5
Thomas T. Wetmore , IV
Table of Contents
1.
Users' Manual
INTRODUCTION
INSTALLATION
STARTING
LIFELINES
AND CREATING DATABASES
INTRODUCTION TO
GEDCOM
MAIN MENU
ENTERING THE FIRST PERSON
SCREEN EDITORS AND ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
BASICS OF BROWSING
IDENTIFYING A PERSON OR LIST OF PERSONS TO BROWSE
ZIP IDENTIFYING A NEW PERSON
BROWSE DISPLAY BASICS
PERSON BROWSE SCREEN
LIST BROWSE SCREEN
FAMILY BROWSE SCREEN
TANDEM PERSON BROWSE MODE
TANDEM FAMILY BROWSE MODE
PEDIGREE BROWSE MODE
ADD OPERATION
DELETE OPERATION
CHARACTER TRANSLATION
MISCELLANEOUS UTILITIES
HANDLING SOURCE, EVENT AND USER-DEFINED RECORDS
FAMILY STRUCTURE AND MERGING PERSONS AND FAMILIES
LINKING RECORDS TOGETHER AND USING THE REFN FEATURE
THE
LIFELINES
PROGRAMMING SUBSYSTEM AND REPORT GENERATOR
2.
LIFELINES
PROGRAMMING REFERENCE
Procedures and Functions
Comments
Statements
Expressions
Include Feature
Built-in Functions
Value Types
Arithmetic and Logic Functions
Person Functions
Family Functions
List Functions
Table Functions
GEDCOM Node Functions
Event and Date Functions
Value Extraction Functions
User Interaction Functions
String Functions
Output Mode Functions
Person Set Functions and GEDCOM Extraction
Record Update Functions
Record Linking Functions
Miscellaneous Functions
List of Examples
1-1.
GEDCOM
person record
1-2.
Example of NAME formats
1-3.
Example of searching on NAMEs
1-4.
Example family record
1-5.
Default person record template
1-6.
Example editing of template record
1-7.
Example of entering a name
1-8.
Example of using wildcard in browsing
1-9.
Example of using abbreviations
1-10.
Example of replacing the default person record template
1-11.
Example of replaced default person record template
1-12.
Example of replaced single line default person record template
1-13.
Example of a source record
1-14.
Example of referring events from a person record
1-15.
Example of adding a new person
1-16.
Example of ahnentafel report
1-17.
Example of ahnentafel report script
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Users' Manual