Error in Create Generations Book extension?

[Edward Connolly]

Hi

I have recently got a new replacement MacBook.

Opened GedItCom and everything appeared to run OK but when today I tried to run the "Create Generations Book' extension I get the following error message

xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun

Any ideas?

Ed

MacBook Pro M3 / Sonoma 14.3

[John Nairn, Developer]

That extension needs Python and new Macs no longer come with Python. You will have go through the steps of installing Python.

For brief instructions, open GEDitCOM II help window and then

1. Click on "Extensions" in the index on the left of the window

2. Click on "Extensions" in the page that appears after click #1

3. See the section on installing Python 3

Regards,

John Nairn

[Edward Connolly]

Thanks, John

Python 3 was installed but I've worked my way through all the options in the help file and the script now runs but...

the output files do not include a bib file.

I get the following report

-------- Running 'Generations LaTeX Book' version 12 --------
Finding ancestors of root individuals
Finding descendants of tree-top individuals
Preparing LaTeX source files
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/eddie/Library/Application Support/GEDitCOM II/System/Scripts/Reports/CreateBook.gplug/Generations LaTeX Book.py", line 2036, in <module>
    WriteUTF8File(rootFldr+"/book.bib",'\n'.join(bib))
  File "/Users/eddie/Library/Application Support/GEDitCOM II/System/Modules/GEDitCOMII.py", line 1335, in WriteUTF8File
    (result,error) = nstring.writeToFile_atomically_encoding_error_(saveFile,objc.YES,NSUTF8StringEncoding,objc.nil)
NameError: name 'objc' is not defined

Ed

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[theboo...@gmail.com]

Can't help with this specifically  but I may have a bug in this report, or at least the TexShop bit of it.

When I don't know the name of a person, I use five underscores eg Smith, _____

No worries there but on one occasion when I didn't know the wife of a person and, instead of just leaving it as unknown wife as I usually do, I entered her as _____, _____

This caused Texshop to refuse to process past that line. Once I removed offending bit, all was good.

Best

Mick

[Edward Connolly]

On those occasions I used [—?—] to denote an unknown name. ( [—?—],[—?—] ) 

I never had a problem until I moved to my new laptop.

Ed

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Can't help with this specifically  but I may have a bug in this report, or at least the TexShop bit of it.

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[John Nairn]

Underscore is special character in LaTeX for subscripting (in math mode). The book extension checks for special LaTeX ncharacters, but I guess not that one. I will look into changing that

You could change LaTeX source files to \_\_\_\_\_ to get 5 underscores. The back slash “escapes” the underscore to output that in typeset output.

John Nairn

[John Nairn, Developer]

Two fixes from this chain:

1. The error writing files is caused by MacOS Ventura reducing support for using Python. Apple used to define and Objective C object called "objc" and that code was using it. That code was writing text to a file and was done in the Python module using MacOS methods that relied on "objc". I just rewrote to use only Python methods and therefore to not relay on Apple support. I just uploaded a new python module that should fix the book creation script. You can get it here:

     https://www.geditcom.com/extensions/index.html#modules

Dowload GEDitCOMII.py and replace the older one a ~/Library/Application Support/GEDitCOM II/System/Modules

I did not update the "date" on above link but I am planning to post 3.2 build 4 very soon that will have this updated module (and some other things). I will fix dates then.

2. Second issue with underscores in a name like "Mary _____". I just checked and the scripting checks for that and fixes to work in LaTeX. Here is LaTeX output from such a name when I tried it:

     and Lucy \_\_\_\_\_ ({\bf\hyperlink{3}{3}})

If you are not seeing this in your book output, either that name is some other place in the report or those underscores where some other character that looks like an underscore (perhaps some unsupported unicode character). If your underscores not automatically converted as above, send me a short sample ".tex" file output from the CreateBook extension.

John Nairn

[theboo...@gmail.com]

Thanks, John

It all worked fine this time so, I assume, there was some other issue before that seemed related to the underscore issue but was not. Sorry

Mick

[Edward Connolly]

Thanks John

That seems to have solved the problem :)

Ed

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[Henry Carruthers]

Hi John

I’m getting the following error message when trying to run the Create Generations book extension:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/Users/henrycarruthers/Library/Application Support/GEDitCOM II/System/Scripts/Reports/CreateBook.gplug/Generations LaTeX Book.py", line 45, in <module>

    from GEDitCOMII import *

  File "/Users/henrycarruthers/Library/Application Support/GEDitCOM II/System/Modules/GEDitCOMII.py", line 35, in <module>

    from Foundation import *

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Foundation'

I have installed MacTeX and put the .py plugin and the CreateBook.gplug into my Applications folder. Is there anything else I should do?

It used to work a couple of years ago.

Thanks

Henry

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[John Nairn]

Do you get a new Mac since it worked? That error message means that part of Python that Apple provides to communicate with applications like GEDitCOM II was not found.

For help on getting Foundation module installed, see GEDitCOM II help — click “Extensions” in index on the left and than click “Extensions” again on the right. See the section on “Installing Python When Needed.” It explains how to fix “No module name Foundation” error.

It can be tricky and can vary with each MacOS. I have been able to get it to work in any MacOS. I have found an issue in Create Generations Book extension in MacOS Sequoia. I have it fixed and will post fix soon. Let me know if you are using Sequoia. That issue is not related to the Foundation module error. You have to fix that one first.

John Nairn

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[Henry Carruthers]

Thanks John I’ll try that.

I’m using the same Mac as before with Monterey 12.1

I’ll let you know if that doesn’t work.

Henry

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