Orientation of chart in Reunion

[martha]

I have two separate questions:

1] Is there some setting that I am missing that will automatically set up a chart to landscape in Reunion? I am not referring to printing out the chart, but to the orientation of the chart itself. I do not seem to be able to find that and some of these charts would fit onto one page if I could work on them in landscape mode.

2] following instructions last week from David Kanter, I tried to make a relative hourglass chart. I could not get it to make an hourglass shape. It always came out from left to right. Changing the orientation still did not create an hourglass. Am I missing something here, as well?

Thanks for any help! [OSX 4.3, Reunion 8.06]

Martha [in Israel]

[David G. Kanter]

1] Is there some setting that I am missing that will automatically set up a chart to landscape in Reunion? I am not referring to printing out the chart, but to the orientation of the chart itself.Tree->Orientation gives you two choices—Top-To-Bottom & Bottom-To-Top— that, subject to just which chart you are generating and what is contained in the extent of the tree you have chosen, tend to be more scroll like (i.e., wider) in that in each generation, each box is on the same horizontal line so the width is more than the sum of the boxes' widths. The other two choices—Left-To-Right & Right-To-Left—tend to be more rectangular as generations are vertical and thus multiple siblings, etc., don't increase the width; the number of generations (and the maximum box width in each generation) drive the width.

In Orientation, if you have enabled the "Live Preview", as you change the Orientation selection, you'll see the chart change. (Note: With "Live Preview" enabled, the chart won't keep the new orientation unless you click the "OK" button.)

2] following instructions last week from David Kanter, I tried to make a relative hourglass chart. I could not get it to make an hourglass shape. It always came out from left to right. Changing the orientation still did not create an hourglass. Am I missing something here, as well?Caution: If you referring to the instructions I provided in my post #2 to ReunionTalk > Using Reunion 8 > In-laws & children (http://www.reuniontalk.com/showthread.php?t=535), please note that in that case the restriction to just an hourglass chart was not appropriate as all the in-law and lateral relatives were desired in the chart. Therefore, those instruction stipulated to disable the Hourglass options.

I just tried a Relative Chart with the Hourglass options enabled and the Orientation set to Top-To-Bottom. That gave me what I expected as an Hourglass chart with the Source person's ancestor generations above the Source person's box and the descendant generations below the Source person's box.

If I'm still not addressing your problem, please provide some additional specifics on what chart, what Layout options, and what Orientation settings you are using—and a bit more, please, on just how the generations are appearing relative to the Source person's information.

[martha]

Thanks, David! As usual, you are right there when we need you!! I am embarrassed to say that the reason for the hourglass shape not coming out was that there were no more generations after the person that I had chosen as source person. [What an idiot! - don't you dare comment on that!!]

Many thanks, Martha