Re: [Gramps-devel] Question about Family Lines Graph

[Ken <ma...@sl...>]

What about giving the user a choice,
as in the Reports > Graphical Reports > Ancestral Graph / Descendant Graph
with an explanation (maybe in a yellow pop up tag, or similar) stating 
that some formats
may make difficult to read.

Ken.

Stéphane Charette wrote:
> That was intentional, and it reflects my own genealogy.  In my case
> 99% of the people going back to the early 1600s come from the same
> province/country, so in the FamilyLines code when I have an individual
> city, I opted to just use that instead of filling up the graph with
> hundreds of copies of the same province name and country name.
>
> What would people like to see?  The title of the place?  Or the
> city/country combined?
>
> It all comes down to space on the graph -- how can I try to shorten
> the names as much as possible.  What I would like to avoid is very
> large text boxes, for example:
>
>    Joe Q. Public
>    (1800-01-01 - 1875-12-31)
>    Beauport, Montmorency, Québec, Canada - Saint-Alexandre,
> Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska, Québec, Canada
>
> ...versus what gets printed now:
>
>     Joe Q. Public
>     (1800-01-01 - 1875-12-31)
>     Beauport - Saint-Alexandre
>
>
> But again, this shows how it works only when the person looking at the
> output of FamilyLines is familiar with the geography of their
> ancestors.  If you have ancestors from all over Europe, just having a
> city name may not help much.
>
> Anyone have a good suggestion?
>
> Stéphane
>
>
> On Jan 13, 2008 4:33 AM, Peter Landgren <pet...@te...> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>> I have run a couple of tests and it looks nice.
>>
>> However, if I include places I get the "City", which may not be the most
>> appropriate type of place. (At least not for Sweden.) I would prefer "Place
>> Name" or "Church parish". Or even better being able to choose at least one
>> type of place from all available possibilities. If a person has
>> immigrated/emigrated it would be nice to have the country too.
>>
>> /Peter
>>
>>     
>
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