There are several places where styled text (bold, italic, sub-sections etc) can be entered. This amounts to a mini word processor within Pedigree Forge. This text can then be shown properly styled in reports.
The main places where rich text can be added are as follows:
Project Notes—Accessed using the “pen” icon on the main action bar. These can form text in a report that isn’t tied to a particular person.
Person Notes—Accessed from the “Notes” section on the person panel. There are two types of notes here: Biographical Information, which is shown in the a report where that person is included or Research Notes, which isn’t shown in any report.
Source Text/Notes—Accessed from the source panel in the “Text:” or “Note” box. These are output in reports in which the relevant source is included.
Editing rich text is these places includes a similar toolbar, which should be familiar to word processor users:
Most of the buttons act like toggles: selecting bold text and then clicking the Bold button which toggle off the bold attribute.
The top row includes: undo, redo, text size, bold, italic, underline, strikeout, superscript, subscript, small capitals and highlight. Examples are below:
The second row includes: tables, numbered list, bullet list, block quote, heading level 1 (Section), Heading level 2 (Sub section), Heading level 3 (sub sub section), links, align left, align centre, align right and justify.
Note: The font face cannot be changed. This is set at the level of the report itself.
The link button allows various special features to be added:
This allows a source to be selected, which is shown in the word processor in brackets (to the source ID), and is output in the report as a reference to the correct source.
Outputs a mark that isn’t visible in the body of the report itself, but adds an entry to the index of the report for the selected person. Index entries are automatically created for where people appear in Ancestor Chapters, so this is mainly useful in project level notes.
Allows you to enter a hyperlink to a website.
Manual footnotes allow text to be entered as a footnote that isn’t linked to a source citation.
Allows a place to be selected from the places used in the database. Note: when expanded in a report, the long form of the name is used first time in the chapter in which it occurs; subsequent uses will use a shorter form.
The above example would show in the report as: “The client’s father was born in Southampton, Hampshire, on 8 July 1918, and lived in Southampton all his life”.
Tables can be added using the table button from the rich text editor’s menu bar. They can be added by rightclicking with the mouse whist inside the table:
The “Borders” option, toggles if the borders will be drawn any output report. The table below has had its borders turned off, so they are shown in light-grey in the word processor, and won’t appear at all a report.
Table columns can be made larger or smaller by clicking on them and dragging. Note: Tables are always shown in reports as the full width available to them. The widths of columns assigned is relative to the width set in the word processor. In the example below, the Number column would be approximately 20% of the width available, and the other two columns 40% each:
