Diagram Options Dialog

Possible values are Ancestors, Descendants, Ancestors and Descendants, All Relatives. The All Relatives tree shows Ancestors, Descendants, Descendants of Ancestors (e.g. cousins), and spouses of any of these. If you select a couple (e.g. by selecting their family record), the All Relatives tree will also show each of the couple's in-laws.

If the diagram shows multiple trees, this field will be <multiple>.

The alignment options depend on the orientation, and on the tree. For example, a descendant tree, oriented top-down, will have two alignment options: top or bottom. Choose 'top' if you wish boxes in a row to be aligned along their top-edge. Choose 'bottom' if you wish boxes to be aligned along their bottom edge.

For left-right and right-left oriented trees, you will be offered the choice of left or right alignment.

For Ancestor-and-Descendant (hourglass) trees, you have two additional options: 'inner' and 'outer'. In a top-down hourglass tree, for example, 'inner' alignment means that that ancestor boxes are bottom-aligned and descendant boxes are top-aligned. In the same tree, 'outer' alignment means that ancestor boxes are top-aligned and descendant boxes are bottom-aligned.

Scaling affects the size of the diagram when printed. To print a diagram at half the normal size, set scaling to 50%. To set it to twice the normal size set scaling to 200%.

Tip: A convenient way to adjust the scaling for a diagram (when the Diagram Options dialog is closed) is to enable display of page boundaries, and click-and-drag on any page boundary intersection (one near the bottom right of the diagram usually works best) using the right mouse button. This lets you adjust scaling while seeing what the effect will be on the diagram size relative to page boundaries.

Not applicable to the Descendants tree. Is the number of ancestor generations required. Only sets the initial number of generations. You can use the expansion buttons to show more generations..

Choose All to view all generations up.

Not applicable to the Ancestors tree. Is the number of descendant generations required. Only sets the initial number of generations. You can use the expansion buttons to show more generations.

Choose All to view all generations down.

Only applicable to the All Relatives tree. It specifies how the Generations Down value should be interpreted.

Suppose Generations Down is 4. If '…counting down from'… was each ancestor, this would mean that you want a tree that initially shows 4 generations down from each ancestor. The tree will also display 4 generations down from the root too. If '…counting down from …' was set to 'root', however, the number of generations going down from the tree root would still be 4. But the number of generations going down from each ancestor could be much greater. However many generations you had to go up to reach each ancestor, you would have to come back down that same number of generations, to show their descendants, and then an additional 4 generations again (or until you ran out of relatives of course).

Not applicable to the Ancestors tree. There are 3 options:

• No Spouse Info
• One Box Per Marriage
• Spouses in Own Box

These are the same settings that you change dynamically on the Diagram Window toolbar. See the discussion in Diagram Window.

Click on Options for more options relating to Spouse Display.

2nd spouse on other side:

If a person has one spouse only, the spouse will appear on the right if female, and on the left if male. A man or woman with 2 spouses will appear between them. Third, or greater, spouses will appear on the far right.

2nd spouse on the right:

If a person has one spouse only, the spouse will appear on the right if female, and on the left if male. A man with 2 spouses will appear to the left of both of them. A woman with 2 spouses will appear between them. Third, or greater, spouses will, in either case, appear on the far right.

All spouses on the right:

Spouse boxes always appear to the right.

Tip: These options specify the default layout position for spouses. However, you can rearrange spouse order whenever you want using the Shift Spouse buttons on the Movement Control Box.

The options are:

Row Stripes

Paint stripes on a per-row basis.  Row stripes are based on the primary tree within the diagram; so diagrams which have no trees will have a plain background colour and no stripes.

Generation Stripes:

Paint stripes on a per-generation basis. For all diagrams except the All Relatives diagram, this is the same as Row Stripes. In the All Relatives diagrams alone, you get multiple rows per generation.    Generation stripes, like row stripes, are based on the primary tree within the diagram; so diagrams which have no trees will have a plain background colour and no stripes.

Depends on Diagram Type:

With this option, the background varies depending on the diagram type. With an All Relatives diagram you will get Generation Stripes (see previous). With an Ancestor diagram you will get one colour: the colour labelled 'Background if anc. colouring'. With Descendants diagrams you will also get one colour: 'Background if desc. colouring'. With Ancestors and Descendants diagrams, the background will be split into two halves. The top (ancestor) half will be coloured using 'Background if anc. colouring', and the bottom (descendant) half will be coloured using 'Background if desc.colouring'.  See below for how to set these various colours.  The type of a diagram is determined by the primary tree within the diagram.  Diagrams which contain no trees will have a simple plain background.

One Colour

With this option, you get a single colour background (that is, 'Background if one colour').

Picture

Choose this option to display an image of any kind in the background. The image can be faded. Within each page, the background image can be displayed tiled, stretched, centred or zoomed. If you want a textured background of any kind, use an image that gives a suitable sample of the required 'texture' (e.g. an image of a brick perhaps). By tiling this image, you can repeat it across the background of each page of the diagram, and give the diagram the required background texture.

To the right of the Background field is an Options button.  If you choose one of the various colour options (that is, any option except Picture), clicking on the Option button will open a dialog box to let you set the colour or colours in question.  Clicking on the Options button when you Picture selected will open a dialog box to let you change the picture, and/or picture settings.

All colours can also be set using the Sundry Colours button (see below).

For all diagrams, you can have relationship descriptions, specifying how the people in that row are related to the diagram root. These descriptions can be on either side of the diagram, or on both sides.

The Font button brings up the font dialog, to allow you to specify the font to be used for Relationship Descriptions.

You can mark a section of any note as private by putting it in doubled square brackets - e.g. [[secret]]. Tick this option if you want private notes to be included when displaying notes in boxes.

If you have opted to include private notes, tick Remove [[ and ]] if you want the doubled square brackets to be removed.

By default, spouses are normally displayed in sequence. But they can be displayed out of sequence if you re-order them using the Shift Spouse buttons in the Movement Control Box.

Also, in an All Relatives tree, non-ancestral spouses of male ancestors are positioned to the left of the ancestor, and non-ancestral spouses of female ancestors are positioned to the ancestors' right. Consequently these spouses may well not be listed in the correct spouse order, if read left-to-right.

Where spouses are not displayed in the correct spouse order, you can optionally display a little number next to each out-of-sequence spouse, to show what the correct sequence should be.

The Font button allows you to specify the font that should be used for the number, if used.

The No-offspring marker is used if you want a line to be drawn below individuals who had no children. If you enable this option, the line will be displayed under the spouse box for an individual if the individual had no recorded children by that spouse, and either the Individual or his spouse's Count of Children field is set to 0; or the Count of Children for the couple's family record is set to 0.

With Individual records, the Count of Children field (Child Count) is set on the Fact tab of the Property Box.  With Family records, it is set on the All tab of the Property Box

Click the Options button to configure the options for this feature such as line colour, thickness and offset. You can also specify whether you want the line to appear under Individuals with no spouses, as well as no children.

The no-offspring marker option is only applied when spouses are displayed in their own boxes (see Spouse Display Options above) and when descendant boxes are top-aligned - or the equivalent of top-aligned if the orientation is not Top-Down (see Alignment above).

Click on the Sundry Colours button to open the Colours dialog, showing colours for diagrams. The Colours dialog is used to specify colours which, for the most part, are not specified elsewhere. Text colours, for example, are usually specified as part of a text scheme (see the Text tab) and are not included here. Box colours are usually specified in the Box tab and are not included here. Background colours are an exception. They can be specified here, but they can also be specified by clicking on the Options button next to the Background field.

There are two ways to open the Colours dialog to set diagram colours. You can click the Sundry Colours button in Diagram Options; or you can right-click on the background of a diagram and choose 'Sundry Colours' from the context menu that appears. The advantage of the latter approach, is that when you do it this way, any changes you make to diagram colours are immediately and automatically reflected in the current diagram window; so you can see what effect they have (these colours are all removed again if you can cancel the dialog). If you open the Colours dialog by clicking on the Sundry Colours button in the Diagram Options dialog, changes will not be displayed in the diagram until you click OK or Apply within the Diagram Options dialog.