HtmlPedigree: Changing the style of the pages

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The style of the web pages can be customised by clicking the "Edit display style" item of the "Tools" menu, and editing the values in the "Text style", "Chart style" and "Menu style" sections.

In each of these sections, the colours can be edited by clicking the adjacent "Choose" button to bring up a dialog box. This offers several alternative ways to specify the required colour, and contains an "OK" button which should be clicked to save it.

The font face for text and charts can be chosen from the list in the "Text style" section. Each entry lists two font faces, to be applied in order of preference. (If you'd like to use one that's not on the list, see Using a non-standard font face.)

The following dimensions can also be specified:

• Text style:
  • The size of text in the small tables of links, as a percentage of the size of the main text.
• Chart style:
  • The size of the small text in the chart, as a percentage of the size of the main text.
  • For the boxes in the chart, the thickness of the border, and the amounts of padding between the text and the borders, all measured in pixels.
  • For the chart, the margins at the sides and top and bottom, the spacing between families, siblings and spouses, and the lengths of the ascender and descender lines between different generations, all measured in pixels.
  • Some features of the default chart format for the web pages: whether time runs across or down, which ancestors of the base individual are shown (all, none, male-line or female-line) and which descendants of the base individual are shown (all, none, male-line or female-line)
• Menu style:
  • The size of the menu text, as a percentage of the size of the main text.
  • For individual menu items, the amounts of padding between the text and the boundaries.
  • For each menu as a whole, the amounts of padding between the contents and the boundaries.

In each of these three sections, there is the option of restoring the default values - that is, of cancelling all the changes made in that section since the "Display style" dialogue box was opened. There is also an "Apply" button that allows the changes in all sections to be previewed befor they are finally accepted by clicking "OK". (To reverse the changes, click "Restore defaults" in each section, and then "OK".)

If you would also like to save these changes for future use, you can do so in two different ways.

1. You can click on "Save current settings as default" in the "Tools" menu. This means that the program will continue to use the edited values as its default in the future. Otherwise it will revert to its own defaults the next time it runs.
2. You can click on "Save current settings to a file" in the "Tools" menu. This allows you to save the settings to a file on your hard disc. When you want to use these settings in the future, click on "Read settings from a file" in the "Tools" menu, and read the file back in.