From: Louis Turk <lou@dayspringpublisher.com>
To: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org-mode and Taskjuggler
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 05:29:13 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51BB8B29.5050800@dayspringpublisher.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+M2ft-0_SW4JqXiyN2f2cCPneNjHCC1yXf8soX1U_fJzm-waA@mail.gmail.com>
On 06/13/2013 09:06 PM, John Hendy wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Louis Turk <lou@dayspringpublisher.com> wrote:
>> Hi Christian and others that are helping me,
>>
>> Many thanks! I've run into more problems, but I'm encouraged that with
>> your help I'll soon have Taskjuggler enabled.
>>
>> On 06/11/2013 04:46 PM, Christian Egli wrote:
>>> Hi Louis
>>>
>>> Louis Turk <lou@dayspringpublisher.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I'm very interested in your work to get Org-mode to export to
>>>> Taskjuggler version 3 --- very exciting! Being able to export to tj3
>>>> from org-mode would be extremely helpful to me.
>>> Cool.
>>>
>>>> However, I'm having trouble getting it to work. I suspect that the
>>>> documentation I've been reading is too old --- for version 2 of
>>>> Taskjuggler---, and I have version 3 installed.
>>> Yes, the documentation should be updated. John Hendy promised to do so a
>>> while ago :-) (hint, hint).
>>>
>>> What are the problems you are encountering? It should work out of the
>>> box. Once you have an org file as explained on the worg page you just
>>> invoke the exporter with C-c C-e J o for example and you should see the
>>> schedule in a browser.
>>>
>>>> Would you please send me:
>>>>
>>>> 1 The related code in your .emacs file.
>>> There is nothing special in my .emacs file. You need to include contrib
>>> to your load path (add-to-list 'load-path "~/src/org-mode/contrib/lisp")
>> I did this.
>>> and you need to enable the taskjuggler exporter (M-x customize
>>> org-export-backends).
>> "M-x customize org-export-backends" did not work for me. If I type "M-x customize-group" then type "org" I get into org related stuff, but nothing about export-backends. And in trying to figure this out I somehow disabled C-c C-e, so now I can't export to anything. I'm hoping I haven't disable a whole lot of other commands also. How can I fix this?
>>
> I'd really re-read through the upgrade guide:
> - http://orgmode.org/worg/org-8.0.html#sec-6
>
> The exporters start with ox-*.el now, not org-*, which may be why
> you're not finding them. Also, if you're like me (and your comments
> look like you are), you may enjoy using the second method to load
> backends so that you have the variables accessible for
> help/customization *prior* to exporting with the given backend the
> first time.
>
> This is sort of mentioned at the link above, covered in Section 3 of
> Nicolas' original announcement:
> - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/65574
>
> I also walked through it with examples of impact on another post:
> - http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/71874)
>
> It's also discussed on my blog; see the little section toward the end
> called "Note on .emacs settings":
> - http://jwhendy.blogspot.com/2013/03/migrating-to-new-org-mode-exporter-org.html
>
> While the documentation is still in rough shape (sorry about that),
> the tj3 page should at least get you to the point where you can C-c
> C-e J for taskjuggler export:
> - http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-taskjuggler3.html
>
> Almost everything from the old documentation regarding the Org file
> structure is still applicable. The only thing that's really changed is
> there's no gui in tj3 and the report format changed.
>
> Keep the questions coming and good luck!
>
> I'll try to get some further setup instructions up as well as porting
> Taskjuggler's tutorial file and default report over to the tj3 page
> within the next week or so.
>
>
>
> John
I apologize and thank you! Somehow I totally missed the links in this
email the first time I read it. I'm up and running now.
Thanks again to you all for you great work!
Louis
>
>
>> I'm using Emacs 23.3 which is the latest version packaged by Mint Linux. Do I need to upgrade to version 24.1?
>>
>>>> 2 A sample full-featured org-mode file that compiles successfully to
>>>> tj3.
>>> The one on from the taskjuggler tutorial on the worg page should work.
>> I am (and will be) using that file until I get everything working.
>>>> 3 Any up-to-date documentation that is available.
>>> The best ATM is the tutorial on worg and the comments in the code.
>>>
>>>> 4 Anything other information needed to get it to work.
>>> If there is any other info needed then I'd say it is the official
>>> TaskJuggler documentation.
>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance for your help. And thanks for all your work
>>>> already done on this project.
>>> My pleasure.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>> Christian
>> Thanks again.
>>
>> Louis
>>
>>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-14 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-29 20:52 [Taskjuggler] Status of exporter Christian Egli
2013-05-01 20:54 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-05-02 20:18 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-05-02 21:56 ` John Hendy
2013-05-03 7:41 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-05-03 10:20 ` Christian Egli
2013-05-03 14:38 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-05-03 15:19 ` Christian Egli
2013-05-03 19:46 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-05-03 20:40 ` Christian Egli
[not found] ` <51B5F967.1040905@dayspringpublisher.com>
2013-06-10 16:09 ` Org-mode and Taskjuggler Louis Turk
2013-06-11 8:46 ` Christian Egli
2013-06-11 12:20 ` John Hendy
2013-06-13 4:38 ` Louis Turk
2013-06-13 5:21 ` Nick Dokos
2013-06-14 20:21 ` Louis Turk
2013-06-14 20:31 ` Nick Dokos
2013-06-13 13:06 ` John Hendy
2013-06-13 15:06 ` Christian Egli
2013-06-14 21:29 ` Louis Turk [this message]
2013-05-03 15:53 ` [Taskjuggler] Status of exporter Eric S Fraga
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-07-14 1:13 Org-mode and Taskjuggler John Hendy
2013-07-14 2:49 ` Nick Dokos
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