From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: New[er] TikZ package: pgfgantt (interest in using with org?)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:47:54 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108301946060.36744@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ippf15ji.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>
Can gnuplot do gantt charts relatively easily? Since org-mode already
works with gnuplot I think in some aspects might this be another useable
route to use?
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > 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.
>
> I agree. I don't often use the project management aspects of TJ. My
> main use of gantt charts is for initial project planning and I use org
> directly for project management.
>
> > 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.
>
> For my needs, a direct org to gantt chart (using the tikz package) would
> be ideal. I don't have time currently to devote to something like this
> (term starts in a few weeks so more pressing needs...) but could provide
> some help if somebody else takes this on.
>
> it would be nice if the same org format/layout as used by the TJ
> exporter could be used here, mind you, to allow for both the simple
> gantt chart generation but also the full project management support
> using the same org file.
>
>
Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
"I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet
of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know he's
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-30 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-04 2:28 New[er] TikZ package: pgfgantt (interest in using with org?) John Hendy
2011-08-30 11:51 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-08-30 23:47 ` Jude DaShiell [this message]
2011-08-31 0:50 ` John Hendy
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