ProfitPress Mega CDROM2 …eeware (MSDOS)(1992)(Eng)/ProfitPress-MegaCDROM2.B6I/MISC/EDUCATIO/PEDHLP13.ZIP/CONFIGUR

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                                                               <MENU>
        ■ Configure settings

        This option is used to adjust the way the pedigree is drawn.
        The current configuration can be saved to disk, or a previously
        saved configuration can be loaded. If a configuration is saved
        to the file PEDRAW.CFG in the current working directory, then
        that configuration will be automatically loaded the next time
        PEDRAW is run from that directory.

        When the option to change the configuration is selected, any
        of the command line flags can be entered if desired <FLAGS>,
        but unless the program is being run in batch mode <BATCH> it
        is best just to press Enter to edit the options individually.

        If "Graphic display" is set to N a text file will be created
        with extension .TRE. The default is instead to produce a
        graphical display of the pedigree structure. <GFLAG>

        If "Conceal sex" is set to Y then all individuals will be
        displayed as diamonds. This is to improve confidentiality when
        pedigrees are published. <UFLAG>

        If "Conceal diagnosis" is set to Y then no individuals will be
        shaded. This is to maintain blindness among other members of the
        research team, e.g. laboratory workers assigning genotype. <BFLAG>

        If "Codes for Epson printer" is set to Y then at the start of a
        text file (TRE file) the codes to make an Epson printer output
        the IBM box character set correctly are added (otherwise you
        would get italics, etc.). This has no effect on ordinary
        graphics (MSP) files. <EFLAG>

        If "File name for saved diagram" is left blank then a default
        filename will be used, consisting of the ID of the individual of
        used as the pedigree ancestor with the extension .MSP for
        graphics files or .TRE for text files. So the pedigree diagram
        produced by selecting individual 12099 as the ancestor would be
        saved to file 12099.MSP. If the filename is set to 0 then the
        diagram will not be saved to disk, only displayed on screen.
        Otherwise any filename can be specified and the diagram will be
        saved with that name. <FFLAG>

        The "Title" can be set to say anything. It will be printed out
        under the pedigree diagram. <TFLAG>

        The "Numbers of lines to show" refers to which lines are to be
        displayed. The default is the first 5. Line 1 is the ID line,
        and then lines 2 to 11 are the optional text lines. The line
        numbers are entered separated by commas. To display the ID, if
        the ID contains a hyphen it is assumed that the LINKSYS format
        is used so that mebers have ID's such as 1-2, 2-3, etc.
        Therefore the first digit before the hyphen and all subsequent
        characters are displayed. If there is no hyphen in the ID code,
        it is assumed that the last 3 digits of the ID refer to the
        code of an individual within a family, and that the earlier
        characters may refer to the family code. Accordingly only
        the last 3 digits are displayed (and leading zeroes are
        removed). With the text lines, the number of characters
        displayed depends on the width of the symbols and of the gap
        between symbols. <LFLAG>

        The symbol and gap height and width in pixels can be set. The
        minimum values for these are 4 and the maximum depends on the
        screen type. The sum of the symbol width and gap width must be
        a multiple of eight. The extra line height refers to the
        vertical space taken up by extra lines which are created either
        when multiple marriages occur or when a line is drawn through
        the pedigree when an intermarriage has occurred. The tip is that
        if you want to leave room for more characters of text lines to
        be displayed, the best thing to do is to increase the width of
        the gap between symbols but leave other dimensions unchanged.
        <SWFLAG> <GWFLAG> <SHFLAG> <GHFLAG> <HFLAG>

        It is possible to limit the number of generations to be printed,
        perhaps if you have trouble fitting them on paper. <GFLAG>

        The "Show all members" option is quite important. If it is set
        to N (the default) then when a pedigree is drawn and an ancestor
        is selected, only his descendants and their spouses (and their
        spouses' descendants and their spouses' spouses) are displayed.
        If the "Show all members" option is set to Y then the program
        looks for the oldest ancestor of each person marrying in to the
        pedigree and shows all their descendants as well. In addition
        the original ancestor used is not the person selected by the
        user but that person's oldest ancestor, so this option can be
        useful if you have forgotten the pedigree structure and want to
        have the ancestor selected automatically. See the section
        explaining the algorithm <ALGORITH> used for fuller details of
        how the program behaves. <AFLAG>

        The maximum number of rows (generations) and columns in the
        pedigree diagram can be altered from the default values, though
        the numbers that can in practice be used are limited by the
        available memory. <RFLAG> <CFLAG>