Re: Formatting issues in ancestor chart

Hi Adrian,

My father and mother code is not identical, mother contains wedding/divorce data. Rest is same.
And I do not use B and D for Birth and Death, because half the family speaks French and the other half speaks English, so I use wingding symbols.
The father code:
$n
{? $b{ $B}}
{† $d}{ $D}

The mother code:
$n
{? $b{ $B}}{
? $m{ $M}{ ? $v{ $V}}
{† $d}{ $D}

The SVG workaround is looks rather heavy to me, at least for the charts which are still "ongoing work".

----- Original Message -----
From: Adrian Davey <[email protected]>
To: Dan <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 29 May 2022 22:06:44 +1000
Subject: Re: [Gramps-users] Formatting issues in ancestor chart

> Looks to me that your name prefixes or other name components contain 
> gaps. Look carefully at the tokens you are using in the basic ancestor 
> chart settings for what if anything prints when the name prefix or some 
> other part is blank. It appears that a line feed is being output in some 
> but not in others. And make sure your code is absolutely identical for 
> fathers & mothers -- eg. mine is --
> 
> $n{. B: $b, $B}
> 
> {D: $d, $D}
> 
> But by my standards, your basic setting even for an object with no 
> apparent gaps in the data structure, appears to output at a position 
> with insufficient margin above and left of the text, relative to the box.
> 
> I find fiddling with the gramps style editor extremely frustrating, but 
> you may get some joy out of that.
> 
> An entirely different fix is to simply output to SVG, then re-position 
> the text objects in an SVG editor (e.g. inkscape). I do this all the 
> time, so I can completely reformat fonts (face, sizes, weights), lines 
> (colours, stroke type, weights), fills, object alignment etc. It is 
> manageable for ancestor charts up to about 8 generations (virtual page 
> size ~.6m x 3.6m), but may not be for descendant charts. Once you have 
> reformatted the output you can export from SVG to PDF. It takes a fair 
> bit of effort to begin with, but once you set up a system, it becomes a 
> quite rapid production system.
> 
> Adrian Davey
> Canberra AUSTRALIA
> 
> On 2022-05-29 19:59, Dan wrote:
> > Sometimes the ancestor chart postions the text for an individual outside of the box, or on the border itself.
> > See an example athttps://imgur.com/wiBxcnH  
> >   
> > I cannot figure what causes it. It seems to happen more when there are fewer fields containing information for an individual, but I can't id a pattern.
> >   
> > I use V5.1.5 on windows 10, but the issue was already present in previous versions.
> >
> > Thank you for any pointers
> > dan
> >
> >
>

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