descent or genealogy diagram

[Timothy Bates]

> 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.

That will help a bit.

> 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.

Thanks.

I am looking at creating an apple script to automate this in the mean time.