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From: "Geoffrey Mann" <>
Subject: [SOG] Re: Drop Line Trees on Web
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 10:28:27 -0000


My original message was:

>Is it possible to publish drop line trees on the web other than as an
image?
>My trees look fine when viewed with a font called MS linedraw which I have
>on my browser but I doubt whether this is widely available. The usual
fonts
>like courier do not have the necessary vertical lines, corners, Ts, etc
Any
>suggestions?
>
Thanks to all who have replied. Some say that PDF is the way to do it and
that Acrobat Writer or possibly Ghostscript will convert to PDF. I have
yet to discover what PDF is!

In view of the widespread use of the internet by genealogists, I find it
really surprising that constructing web pages with straight lines joining
text as in a family tree should be so difficult .
when complicated pages with coloured moving images can be built relatively
easily.

I began to put my trees on a computer some 15 years ago when there was
little software available. I settled for a DOS word processor which allows
all the elements of a tree (horizontals verticals L & R corners X Ts boxes
etc) to be entered in place with single keystrokes. Some 200 trees later I
still use it and cannot image this hobby without the facility of
constructing and altering my own trees so easily. I discovered only later
that the processor uses the same character set as MS Linedraw

Until recently all I needed was to print the trees on paper to send them to
other interested researchers, but now of course I would like to send them
electronically. I hope PDF will prove to be the answer.

Geoffrey Mann

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