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Why Scripts?

    

Sample Script

  • It usually takes many runs of Ancestral Author to get the PDF document exactly to your liking. Scripts eliminate the need to repeatedly type the information. This is especially true if you are working on more than one document at a time. You can switch between two different scripts for two different documents without having to re-enter information.

  • Scripts make it easy to update your document after you've updated your genealogy. Just produce a new GEDCOM and rerun the script.

  • It's sometimes easier to use Notepad (or another text editor) to edit a script than it is to run the Ancestral Author wizard. Suppose you've produced a document with ten chapters, and you want to delete a chapter at the beginning of the document. The Ancestral Author wizard does not handle this situation well; there is no facility for deleting chapters in the middle of the document. With Notepad, you can just delete script statements for the chapter. For example, to delete the chapter entitled "The Great Sickness", just delete the blue lines in the sample script shown in the next column.

 

   (GEDCOM "C:\Home\G\wheelock\Wheel708.ged"
PDF: "C:\Home\G\PDFs\charlton.pdf")
(TITLE "The Wheelock Family of Charlton, MA"
IMAGE: "C:\images\coatarms.jpg"
FOOTER: "www.WheelockFamily.com"
BYLINE: "Compiled by R. B. Sullivan, Jr/Sep 2002")
(HEADING1 "Acknowledgements")
(FILE "c:\home\g\docscripts\wheelockack.txt")
(HEADING1 "Introduction")
(HEADING2 "Early History")
(FILE "c:\home\g\docscripts\charlton_early_hist.txt")
(HEADING2 "The Great Sickness")
(FILE "c:\home\g\docscripts\charlton_great_sickness.txt")
(HEADING2 "The Revolutionary War")
(FILE "c:\home\g\docscripts\charlton_rev_war.txt")
(HEADING2 "Post War Migrations")
(FILE "c:\home\g\docscripts\charlton_post_revwar_migration.txt")
(HEADING1 "Reverend Ralph Wheelock, Immigrant Ancestor")
(DESCENDANTS OF: "ralph wheelock"
BORN: "14 May 1600"
TO: "benjamin wheelock"
BORN: "12 dec 1678"
GENERATIONS: 0 NOTES: SUPPRESS LINK: CHILD LINK: PARENT)
(DESCENDANTS OF: "Silas Wheelock"
BORN: "11 Mar 1717/18"
GENERATIONS: 2 NOTES: SUPPRESS LINK: CHILD LINK: PARENT)
(HEADING1 "Descendants of Jonathan Wheelock")
(DESCENDANTS OF: "jonathan wheelock"
BORN: "21 july 1713"
GENERATIONS: 128 LINK: CHILD LINK: PARENT)
(HEADING1 "Descendants of Captain Paul Wheelock")
(DESCENDANTS OF: "paul wheelock"
BORN: "13 Jan 1715/16"
GENERATIONS: 128 LINK: CHILD LINK: PARENT)
(HEADING1 "Relationship of Abigail Chapin to John Adams")
(DESCENDANTS OF: "Joseph Adams"
BORN: "1626"
GENERATIONS: 128 LINK: CHILD LINK: PARENT)
(HEADING1 "Ancestors of Martha Daggett")
(HEADING2 "Stockwell Ancestors")
(DESCENDANTS OF: "William Stockwell"
BORN: "abt 1650"
GENERATIONS: 128 LINK: CHILD LINK: PARENT)
(HEADING2 "Daggett Ancestors")
(DESCENDANTS OF: "William Daggett"
BORN: "1661"
GENERATIONS: 128 LINK: CHILD LINK: PARENT)
(HEADING1 "Descendants of David Wheelock")
(DESCENDANTS OF: "david wheelock"
BORN: "18 jan 1720/21"
GENERATIONS: 128 LINK: CHILD LINK: PARENT)
(HEADING1 "Family of Eleazar Wheelock")
(DESCENDANTS OF: "Eleazar Wheelock"
BORN: "27 Jun 1747"
GENERATIONS: 128 LINK: CHILD LINK: PARENT)
(HEADING1 "Unplaced Families In Charlton")
(HEADING2 "Paul Wheelock alias John A. Wheelock")
(DESCENDANTS OF: "John A. Wheelock"
BORN: "Abt 1807"
GENERATIONS: 128 LINK: CHILD LINK: PARENT)
(SOURCES ANNOTATIONS: ON)
(INDEX LINK: PRIMARY_PAGE)