From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thomas S. Dye" Subject: Re: Business process diagrams in org-mode Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:40:31 -1000 Message-ID: <276A57E6-7BAD-46C5-B7F3-62D8A1088997@tsdye.com> References: <87bp5sacnf.fsf@bunting.net.au> <871v6mq15z.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <87fwv2z9au.fsf@bunting.net.au> <87vd3x9nmp.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46298 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PIQSP-0004Zx-9d for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:40:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PIQSO-0002hj-4G for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:40:41 -0500 Received: from oproxy3-pub.bluehost.com ([69.89.21.8]:46457) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PIQSN-0002gB-UU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:40:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87vd3x9nmp.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eric S Fraga Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Nov 16, 2010, at 6:35 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > Bart Bunting writes: > >> Hi Eric, >> >> Thanks very much for the suggestion! >> >> I'm not familiar with dot but will invest some time to see if I can >> get >> my head around it. >> >> This sounds like a good solution. Perhaps just writing directly in >> dot >> will solve my problem. > > Possibly, although as it is possibly nicer to work with org tables, > and > because my train was delayed 45 minutes on the way to work this > morning, > here (attached as an org file with babel emacs lisp code) is one > attempt > at a solution. > > There is one bug in this code: for some reason, the dot code generated > by the emacs lisp code gets embedded in an org EXAMPLE block. Not > sure > why but I have to do something else now... I'll try to come back to > this later. > > Oh, I also changed your table so that each next step takes up a column > entry in the table. This is not ideal but I didn't want to bother > parsing the actual table entries. > > > HTH, > eric Hi Eric, Neat! This gets rid of the #+begin_example ... #+end_example for me: #+call: esf/business-process[:results value raw](table=processtable, file="business.pdf", name="process") :results value raw All the best, Tom