Christian Wittern <
cwittern@gmail.com> writes:
> I think this is an excellent article, introducing an aspect of
> org-mode, which I think fills a gap that no other software I know of
> comes even close to approach. I already started mentioning it in
> conversations and am sure it will be very useful to many members of
> the academic community.
>
> Just to make sure I could answer any follow up questions, I downloaded
> the replication bundle and started installing the dependencies. I
> encountered a few problems and hope this is the right place to discuss
> them. BTW, I am working with this on a Mac OS X 10.6 machine.
>
> Most of the dependencies I already had or installed them from
> macports. One problem I encountered was with installing the RSQLite
> package. Executing the installation command from the README file did
> not work because of permission issues, the command needs to run with
> superuser rights. Is it possible to give these rights to commands run
> from babel? Since I did not find a way to do that, I installed from
> the R commandline, where I found that the name of the package is
> RSQLite, not 'RSQlite' as given in the readme file.
>
> The one dependency I could not solve was the 'dot' executable. I
> assume this is an interpreter for the dot language, for which it seems
> the program on the Mac is named graphviz. However, I am not sure how
> to make that work with org/babel. Should I simply symlink to
> graphviz? Or is there a babel variable to be set? This is a point
> that probably needs some explanation, at least for Mac users (I
> realize that the articel might not have been intended as such a
> general introduction with details for all common OSses, but it would
> be nice if this can be gradually supplemented).
>
> One last remark; since this is an online publication, I think using
> proper fontification for the examples and org source code would be
> even more appealing, especially for people who encounter org for the
> first time.