* Fact icons inside Diagram boxes

[Glenn Webby]

Haven’t asked a question for awhile, so I wanted to break that with this.

Is there a way/method of adding an icon to a fact line in a diagram? I mean for a birth insert an icon at the beginning of the line … Born: XXXX in YYYYY, ZZZZ or Buried: XXXX in YYYY, ZZZZ

Icons would represent the fact being articulated such as a baptism symbol to represent baptism.

Indeed if it is possible to put an icon on a fact line in a diagram, could we replace the standard text, Bapt, Marr, Occup. etc with the icon?

I understand how to assign icons to boxes, I’m really interested in icons for individual fact lines as a way to make charts look more attractive and reduce characters in the horizontal plane.

Many thanks for any help.

[tatewise]

Hi Glenn.
The short answer is probably not. Diagram box fact descriptions can only contain textual characters.
However, there is a vast choice of characters in the Unicode UTF-8 symbols.
So investigate the Windows Character Map utility and online to see if any symbols might fit the bill.
e.g.
♂ birth of a boy
♀ birth of a girl
† baptism
⚭ marriage
☠ death
⚰ burial
⚱ cremation

Alternatively, Tamura Jones suggests some standard symbols in https://www.tamurajones.net/GenealogySymbols.xhtml

[Jane]

Another option:

You can't use an icon, but you could use a font, such as Wingdings or similar.
Then wrap a font change command around the character you want to use, remembering to condition it on the existence of the field you need by using a text if expression. Then another font change to go back to your selected font again.

[Glenn Webby]

Thanks both