Getting started

A guide to quickly setting up.

GEDCOM Conversion

The conversion of the GEDCOM File requires the gc2book command line tool and a LaTeX distribution which can generate a PDF file. I am using the (MiKTeX).

System requirements

Running the tool chain requires:

  • A package manager like chocolatey
  • The .NET 6.0 runtime
  • The gc2book application
  • LaTeX distribution

Setting up the system

In general there are several possibilities to install the required software packages. I personally prefer the usage of package manager also on Windows. There are too choices either (WinGet) or (Chocolatey).

I describe the installation here with chocolatey. To use this software you must install it as described on (Chocolatey).

Install the MaiorumSeries chocolatey package.

choco install maiorumseries -y

The installation of the LaTeX distribution is required to compile the documents and the MiKTeX distribution is highly recommended.

choco install miktex -y

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