From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Hendy Subject: New[er] TikZ package: pgfgantt (interest in using with org?) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 21:28:04 -0500 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59116) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QonfL-0003qK-Nj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:28:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QonfK-0007Hs-Az for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:28:07 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f41.google.com ([209.85.161.41]:36072) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QonfK-0007Hn-42 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:28:06 -0400 Received: by fxg9 with SMTP id 9so1928086fxg.0 for ; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:28:05 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode I thought I'd go ahead and just start a fresh post form the orgmode -> tikz/gantt topic here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/31824 Eric Fraga did a fantastic job of creating some TikZ code that could create a gantt chart from a table. Since then, it appears that a package was created for TikZ that would actually do all of this. It's quite well documented and looks incredibly well done. See the documentation here: http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfgantt/pgfgantt.pdf There are great examples in the documentation, and I think there's *got* to be some way to integrate either org-mode tables or perhaps properties somehow in creating these. I find gantt charts useful for 1) personal management and just knowing a timeline for when things need to get done and 2) for management who wants to know these kinds of things. While agenda is quite helpful, there is something about seeing a bird's eye view of everything nested together that's really slick. Any thoughts on whether there's interest in this? There's a similar package for ConTeXt, but I don't know anything about ConTeXt (when I first saw it, I thought this was for LaTeX and was really puzzled about why I couldn't get it to compile). See the following: --- http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gantt-tikz --- http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex_gantt_package.php I think the pgfgantt package does everything for basic use, and more. I don't see a reason to go the ConTeXt route, but just provided it for information. This is already usable in LaTeX code blocks... but integration with org-mode would be superb and could perhaps replace the need for Task Juggler. It seems cleaner to me, though perhaps others get more out of Task Juggler than just gantt charts. That's my primary interest, and so exporting to a .tjp file and then needing to run from command line, and then printing the html to PDF... is a bit laborious. This is right in the org -> LaTeX workflow and really does a nice, neat job of providing the necessary info. Thanks for any thoughts! John