Re: Genealogy For The Beginner

Ian Goddard wrote (in soc.genealogy.computing):
> It renders quite nicely with Seamonkey. "children" and John Kelly Brown 

Camino, which allegedly is closely related to SeaMonkey,
does not connect the lines.  But I'm not really interested
in the lines.  I'm interested in a way to define divs so
that each person's div contains the divs of his parents,
recursively, and the positioning, being related to that
of the enclosing div makes the entire chart look right.

So (using brackets for angles):

[div class="person"]
Person's details
   [div class="person father"]
   his father's details
      [div class="person father"]
      paternal grandfather's details
      [/div]
      [div class="person mother"]
      paternal grandmother's details
      [/div]
   [/div]
   [div class="person mother"]
   his mother's details
      [div class="person father"]
      maternal grandfather's details
      [/div]
      [div class="person mother"]
      maternal grandmother's details
      [/div]
   [/div]
[/div]

..person
{
   most of the style info common to all;
   positioning info that puts his/her details
   to the left of his box, centered vertically
   in that box;
   margin, padding, and whatnot that makes that
   box big enough to hold the boxes (if any) of
   the divs within;
}

..mother
{
   positioning info that puts mother's box
   in the lower right of the enclosing div
}

..father
{
   positioning info that puts father's box
   in the upper right of the enclosing div
}

This would make automated chart generation easier:

function show_person(ID, level)
{
   if level = max { return }
   css_class = "person"
   if (level > 1)
   {
     if (person is male)
     {
       css_class = css_class & " father"
     }
     else
     {
       css_class = css_class & " mother"
     }
   print "[div class=\"css_class\"]"
   print details of person
   F_ID = father_of(ID)
   if found
   {
     show_person(F_ID, level + 1)
   }
   M_ID = mother_of(ID)
   if found
   {
     show_person(M_ID, level + 1)
   }
} // end show_person

But this is really more of a question for a CSS group, so
followups to comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets

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Wes Groleau

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