Projects — Prints 2.6

We’ll group the projects together today.

Family pedigrees

An old-yet-new chart type: family pedigrees.

As you can see, it’s a little different from the initial design. This modern incarnation admittedly isn’t as pretty in some ways, but it’s a heck of a lot easier to lay out programmatically.

New things: It shows which child the line comes through, I added the lifespan right after each parent’s name, and I added indicators for the children showing how many kids they had (the dot) and how many marriages (the slash, though if they were married only once and had children, I left the marriage indicator off).

It also supports four generations, admittedly with less space and smaller type:

I tried it without the table borders, by the way. While it was more readable than I expected, it felt a little too loose and unmoored.

The input uses ArchieML and currently looks like this:

“` [families]

family: 1.1 marriage: 30 Dec 1829 in Polanco father: José Antonio Fuentevilla Fuentevilla // 1809-1878 mother: Manuela Gándara Cobo // 1811-1879 [.children] name: ? // 1830-1831

name: Josefa // 1832-1834

name: Francisca Maria // 1835-1843

name: Maria Remedios // 1838-1898 children: 6

name: Maria Luisa // 1841-1916 marriages: 1

name: Manuel // 1845-

name: < Maria Isabel // 1848-1928 children: 9

name: Maria Dolores // 1853-1853

name: José Maria // 1858-1858 []

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