Re: [Gramps-users] Modified Descendant Report

[Martin C. <cas...@ea...>]

Steven I Usdansky wrote:
> Disclaimer: I'm not a Python programmer
> 
I think Traveling Geologist sounds like more fun :)

> Be that as it may, I've modified Don's Descendant Report to show each
> descendant's (and the original person's) spouse. Spouses are
> listed beneath each person with a letter to (hopefully) indicate


I think it's a big improvement, quite useful.  A couple of thoughts:

Usually these reports indicate spouses (the female ones) with a plus 
sign (+) rather than letters.  Nowadays I suppose that's more tradition 
than anything else, but using lower case letters might conflict with 
some of the other (dozens) labeling schemes out there.  It appears as if 
you have the marriage order correct, so the a, b, c convention might be 
redundant if the wives are in the right chronological order.

Also, one normally sees these reports with vertical bars or somesuch 
connecting the generations because when the report gets deep (5 or 6 
generations, say) it's tough to spot all the members of a family when 
they are spread over many pages.  Personally, I find those vertical 
lines rather distracting, but the problem they attempt to solve is 
inherent in the report structure itself, and likely applies more to 
printed reports rather than on-screen.

I'd love a copy to try out.  I've been messing with the FTM-style 
report, and it's a lot of fun dissecting this stuff.

-- 
Marty Cassidy
Seattle, WA  USA