Template:Familytree/doc

The Basics
The  template produces one row in a family tree table, which accepts up to 80 parameters (separated with pipes) describing the contents of the table. Each parameter specifies a tile or a box.


 * Tiles
 * Tiles consist of horizontal and vertical lines and various corners and crossings thereof. Tiles are specified using single-character symbols that try to 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.


 * Boxes
 * Boxes are for describing the people in the family tree. Boxes are 3 tiles wide. For this reason, I prefer to use 5 letter names for them, as it allows for me to most easily envision the tree while I'm working in source move. But they're just variables and you can really use a name of any length.

Using it
This is an example of a tree:

Next, add names to the boxes like this:

And you can color the boxes like this:

Or like this. All the regular background stuff—background color, font, ect—can be put in the style section of. Box-related things must be put in the  section.