Template:Familytree/doc

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This is a template for rendering simple family trees consisting of boxes and connecting lines based on an ASCII art-like syntax. The trees are displayed as HTML tables using CSS attributes, and may contain arbitrary wiki markup within the boxes.

Example usage

This code:

{{familytree/start}}
{{familytree | | | | GRM |~|y|~| GRP | | GRM=[[Grandma]]|GRP=[[Grandpa]]}}
{{familytree | | | | | | | |)|-|-|-|.| }}
{{familytree | | | MOM |y| DAD | |DAI| MOM=[[Mom]]|DAD=[[Dad]]|DAI=[[Daisy|Aunt]]}}
{{familytree | |,|-|-|-|+|-|-|-|.| | | }}
{{familytree | JOE | | ME | | SIS | | | JOE=[[My elder brother]]|ME='''ME'''|SIS=[[My little sister]]}}
{{familytree/end}}

Produces this:

 
 
 
Grandma
 
 
 
Grandpa
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mom
 
Dad
 
Aunt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
My elder brother
 
ME
 
My little sister
 
 


Parameters

This template produces one row in a family tree table. The template accepts up to 99 unnamed parameters describing the contents of the table. Each parameter specifies a tile or a box.

  • Tiles are line drawing symbols consisting of horizontal and vertical lines and various corners and crossings thereof. Tiles are specified using single-character symbols that more or less approximate the shape of the tile in appearance. A special case of a tile is the empty tile, specified by a single space character. A table of supported tiles is given below.
Solid lines:
,
 
 
 
 
  .
 
 
 
  `
 
 
 
  '
 
 
 
 
^
 
 
 
  v
 
 
 
  (
 
 
 
  )
 
 
 
 
-
 
 
  !
 
 
  +
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dashed lines:
F
 
 
 
 
  7
 
 
 
  L
 
 
 
  J
 
 
 
 
A
 
 
 
  V
 
 
 
  C
 
 
 
  D
 
 
 
 
~
 
 
  :
 
 
  %
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mixed:
*
 
 
 
 
  }
 
 
 
  {
 
 
 
 
#
 
 
 
 
  y
 
 
 
  h
 
 
 
 
]
 
 
 
  [
 
 
 
 


  • Boxes can contain arbitrary wiki markup. The contents of boxes are specified using additional named parameters appended to the template call. Each box is three tiles wide and normally has a 2 pixels wide black border. Boxes can have any name that is a valid template parameter name, although single character names should be avoided to prevent conflicts with tile symbols.