It seems to me that genealogical trees should be doable in TW. I should emphasise I don't have the programming skill to actually do it.
*But I thought others might find it an interesting delimited challenge.* WHY am I interested? Because I am an anthropologist. And anthropologists know lots about kinship systems. And TW could serve as an elegant, minimalist way to record and document kinship relationships, I believe. Kinship diagrams are in one way very easy. They are simply branching hierarchies of "DESCENT". BUT also central to them is the role of "AFFINITY" (marriage). So what you have is a FUSION of DESCENT lines through MARRIAGE. So its never ONE descent line. This is why Mat's interesting recent experiment using forking lists (<li>) and smart CSS hits a limit. It can't cope with the arbitrary crossing in of affines (relatives by marriage) who create ADDITIONAL HIERARCHIES. I'm sure there could be a way to do this in TW without having to resort to overly complex solutions. The logic in genealogical trees is not infinitely complex. If anyone is interested I can layout a formal procedure for constructing them anthropologists use. Technical note: Western style genealogical trees are generally presented TOP DOWN from ancestors. Anthropologist work from "EGO", i.e. a specific person and depict the relationships UP & DOWN from there. The final diagrams are IDENTICAL, but the mode of construction is different. Its perhaps worth noting that construction from "EGO" gives a very clear procedure because its always determinate. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3ca52fef-7e92-41a3-b163-54cf0f6e498e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
