Ascendance of a Bookworm Wiki:Family Tree Syntax

Full documentation: https://familypedia.fandom.com/wiki/Template:Family_tree/doc (Credits to the creators of the family tree templates)

Changes:

• Style attributes (CSS) for family trees are disabled in this wiki to prevent complication and breaking dark/light mode support. (no boxstyle or border parameters)

• Added a few custom line parameters.

• Template names has been changed according to the template naming style:

 - familytree       --> FamilyTree

 - familytree/start --> FamilyTree/Start

 - familytree/end   --> FamilyTree/End

Example usage

This code:

{{FamilyTree/Start |summary=I have a brother Joe and a little sister: my mom married my dad, and my dad's parents were Grandma and Grandpa; they had another child, Aunt Daisy.}}
{{FamilyTree | | | | GMa |~|y|~| GPa | | GMa=Gladys|GPa=Sydney}}
{{FamilyTree | | | | | | | |)|-|-|-|.| }}
{{familyTree | | | MOM |y| DAD | |DAISY| MOM=Mom|DAD=Dad|DAISY=[[Aunt Daisy]]}}
{{familyTree | |,|-|-|-|+|-|-|-|.| | | }}
{{familyTree | JOE | | ME  | | SIS | | | JOE=My brother Joe|ME='''Me!'''|SIS=My little sister}}
{{familyTree/End}}

Produces this:

Gladys

Sydney

Mom

Dad

Aunt Daisy

My brother Joe

Me!

My little sister

Parameters

The |summary= text parameter of the {{FamilyTree/Start}} template should be used to describe the overall layout of the tree. This summary is for accessibility: it is read aloud to visually impaired readers who use screen readers, and is invisible to sighted readers.

The {{FamilyTree}} template produces one row in a family tree table. The template accepts up to 80 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		V		7
D		%		C
L		A		J
~		:

Mixed (1):

r		y		n
]		#		[
c		h		j
~		!

Mixed (2):

p		u		q
}		*		{
b		t		d
-		:

Misc.:

Z		T		N		U		z
G		X		K		k

• 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.