The package provides a set of macros based on PSTricks to draw medical pedigrees according to the recommendations for standardized human pedigree nomenclature. The drawing commands place the symbols on a pspicture canvas. An interface for making trees is also provided. The package may be used both with LaTeX and PlainTeX.

A separate Perl program for generating TeX files from spreadsheets is available.

See also pedigree-perl.

The authors are Boris Veytsman and Leila Akhmadeeva. The package is Copyright © 2006 Boris Veytsman, Leila Akhmadeeva.