descent or genealogy diagram

[Frank Einstein]

You're talking about genograms, right? I'm using (or trying to use) OG to 
draw genograms also. I have just started using OG for this purpose, and 
it's working better than I expected. I don't know how well it will do in 
making changes to a genogram that I am working on. I have noticed that 
when I try to remove a person, the line joining her to the rest of the 
family goes also, which is not what I intended. So, I'm still 
experimenting.

I don't know if you can put magnets on lines. The auto distributing 
feature would be nice.

I'm interested in knowing what success you have using OG for genograms. 

Frank

>anybody drawing the kind of trees used in genetics research where you have 
>circles and square for female and male subjects, then marriage is a 
>horizontal 
>line joining two people, and children come from a vertical descending line 
>bisecting the parental join-line, followed by a horizontal line to which  
>children (squares and circles) are joined by further vertical lines?
>
>I can manually get this design, but it is very cumbersome. What would be 
>nice 
>would be to have:
>
>1. Magnets on lines (can't do this?)
>2. Auto distributing magnets (so when a new magnet is added, the others 
>move to 
>evenly distribute themselves along the line
>
>Any way to emulate this, and or any hope for this in a future version?