Boxchart options

A range of options is available to control the data to be displayed, and the style and appearance of the boxes.

You can choose which data you wish to display for parents and for children within the family boxes. If you choose to add birth/baptism data, or death/burial data, the program selects in each case whichever entry appears first in the GEDCOM file, which if chronology is observed will be birth and death data. You can choose to leave blank lines where data is missing. Blank lines will however only be left for death/burial data if a 'DEATH' or a 'BURIAL' tag is found in the GEDCOM file. If none of the options for child data is selected, and if the option to show children's names in full is not chosen, the years of birth or baptism, and death, will be shown on the same line as the child's name.

If the male spouse always first option is checked, the husband will always be shown before the wife in each family box. If this option is unchecked, the wife will be shown first if her parents appear on the chart and her husband's parents do not.

The appearance of the text can be varied by the use of bold or italic styles, and children can be marked by bullet points. The font itself must be selected by choosing Fonts from the Options menu.

Options to control the shape and border of the boxes are available by clicking Box styles. Most of these options will have no effect when you save a chart to HTML, owing to the limitations of this format.