Diagram Options Dialog

Diagram Options Dialog: Text Tab

The text displayed in boxes in diagrams is determined by the text scheme. A text scheme can be simple or complex. It can ensure that different text is displayed in different boxes or the same text in all boxes. Some schemes display different information depending on which diagram options are being used. Some may display different information depending on the sex of the box owner, on record flags, and/or on other conditions.

Family Historian is installed with a number of standard text schemes. You can select whichever scheme you want for the current diagram, from the text scheme list.

You can modify any text scheme or create new custom text schemes of your own if you wish. Custom text schemes are listed together with standard text schemes (but with '(custom)' after their name).

The text scheme determines the colour of the text, and the fonts and styles used. It also determines the alignment of the text (left, right, centred or justified), and how text is indented. Different lines can have different text alignment and indentation, as well as different fonts, styles, etc.

Current Text Scheme shows the text scheme that is currently being used in the Diagram Window.

To get a feel for what different text schemes do, make sure that the current diagram has an interesting selection of Individuals about whom you have recorded a reasonable amount of data. Next position the Diagram Options dialog to one side of the screen so that it obscures your diagram as little as possible. Then select each text scheme in turn and click Apply. As you do this, notice that the diagram changes to use the new text scheme (and the selected text scheme's name is displayed in the Current Text Scheme box). Be aware that text schemes can't show data you don't have. If you have not entered any census data, for example, the Census Data text scheme will not show much information.

Language Issues

The Text Scheme list, and the buttons available, will vary in appearance, depending on whether or not you have selected a language pack (either by default, or explicitly) in the Language tab of this same dialog (Diagram Options).  We will say that the tab is in language mode if a language pack is selected in the Language tab.  If not in language mode, the Text Scheme list has only one column, 'Text Schemes', and the buttons displayed to the right of it are:

• New
• Clone
• Edit Text Scheme
• Delete Text Scheme
• More (submenu):
• Edit Base-level text scheme (greyed and disabled)
• Delete Base-level custom text scheme (greyed and disabled)
• Margins & Tabs
• Restore Defaults

In language mode, however, the Text Template has two columns: the first column is just the Text Scheme name.  The second column, 'Lang.', has a green tick showing for a given text scheme, if a language variant has been defined for that text scheme.  A language variant of a text scheme is essentially a translation of that text scheme, into the required language.  In language mode, the buttons displayed to the right of the text scheme list are:

• New
• Clone
• Edit Language Variant
• Delete Language Variant
• More (submenu):
• Edit Base-level text scheme
• Delete Base-level custom text scheme
• Margins & Tabs
  
• Restore Defaults

Edit Text Scheme button and Edit Base-level Text Scheme command on the 'More' submenu, effectively do the same thing - they allow the original, untranslated text scheme to be edited.  And Delete Text Scheme and Delete Custom Base-level Text Scheme command on the 'More' submenu also do the same thing - they allow the original, untranslated text scheme to be deleted (noting that only custom base-level text schemes can be deleted).  The change of name is made solely to clearly emphasize the difference between editing or deleting the language variant, and the original 'base-level' text scheme.

In language mode, the name of the language pack is displayed as a link, just below the More button.  Clicking on this link causes a jump to the Language tab.

When a language pack is selected in the Language tab, the Diagram Window will always use the language variant of the currently selected text scheme if there is one.  If there isn't, it will use the original untranslated text scheme instead.

Language Variants are Part of Language Packs

Diagram text schemes can be imported or exported, using the Import/Export submenu of the File menu.  It might seem that if you import or export a text scheme, you will also import or export all the language variants of that text scheme.  That is not the case.  Language variants of text schemes are kept within language packs.  When you create a language variant, the language variant is added to the current language pack.  And if you delete a language variant, the language variant is deleted from the current language pack.  Language packs can be imported and exported too; so if you wish to share language variants of text schemes, you do so by sharing the appropriate language pack.

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