descent or genealogy diagram

[David C. Kasprzyk]

Dear Tim:

In OmniGraffle 3.0 we have changed the way that you connect to lines in 
a way that I think will be helpful to you.  Instead of creating a new 
point where you connect, you will simply be connected to the line, and 
as you shrink/enlarge or move the line the connected line will remain 
connected at the same percentile distance along the line.

As for adding magnets to the lines, I think this would be a decent 
extension of these new changes and will file a request on this into our 
database along with your request for auto-distributing magnets on 
shapes.

If you have any additional comments or questions please feel free to 
let me know and I will be happy to assist you.

Sincerely,

David Kasprzyk
OmniGraffle Project Coordinator
support at omnigroup.com

On Tuesday, Mar 11, 2003, at 10:46 US/Pacific, Tim Bates wrote:

> 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?
>
> Genealogy is a large market in diagramming, and a very large consumer 
> market.
>
> tim
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