From: jmcbray@carcosa.net (Jason F. McBrayer)
To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Idea: Agenda Search publish?
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:51:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1y7khu0d8.fsf@bertrand.carcosa.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4bbea17378fe63d761a2ce6a80eddb04@science.uva.nl> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Mon\, 23 Apr 2007 22\:39\:49 +0200")
Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
> On Apr 2, 2007, at 16:06, Tim O'Callaghan wrote:
>> What about adding the generated searches as a publishable source?
>> possibly by adding to
>> org-agenda-custom-commands.
>
> Would htmlize be enough to publish this, or do people have more fancy
> ideas about how this should work?
I'm a bit of mixed minds on this topic.
Unrealistic wishful thinking that I should implement my damn-self:
Tag searches are always contexts for me. If I want to export the
results of a tag search, it's probably because I want to print a
context that is not @Computer and put it in my planner. The
output ought to be something that eventually yields a PDF file
that looks like a DIY Planner (http://www.diyplanner.com/) context
page.
Likewise, daily/weekly agenda views ought to yield DIY Planner-ish
calendar pages.
This is a totally non-serious proposal, because I expect anyone to
have completely different preferences for from me, and it's not
worth anyone else's time to implement exactly what I want :)
Totally realistic, requires little work for anyone:
Provide a utility function for calling htmlize on the agenda
buffer and saving the results; doesn't need to be more integrated
than that. You can then generate somewhat naff PDFs which are at
least the right paper size and so forth by printing from a web
browser.
Alternative idea:
Many people seem to be using scripts (orgna.pl, for example) to do
this kind of thing, which seems to be perfectly reasonable. Maybe
a good idea would be to make it easier for scripts by letting
org-mode handle the logic of selecting things, then just feeding
the data to the script in a sensible format?
org-batch-agenda /very nearly/ does this. I think it could be
improved as an adjunct to external script-writing by providing two
things:
1. An unambiguously parseable output format with some semantic
content. An XML microformat would do dandy for this, but
something like adequately-escaped comma-separated text with
defined columns for category, status, title, and tags would
also do well enough.
2. Support for arbitrary tag/keyword searches, though continued
support for cmd-keys from org-agenda-custom-commands would
still be conveient.
Anyone else's thoughts?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-24 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-02 14:06 Idea: Agenda Search publish? Tim O'Callaghan
2007-04-05 9:23 ` Bastien
2007-04-05 10:03 ` Leo
2007-04-05 16:56 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-04-05 18:25 ` David O'Toole
2007-04-05 18:40 ` Leo
[not found] ` <3d6808890704051213i1a3bc737wfa715f4b7f2f0c25@mail.gmail.com>
2007-04-05 19:29 ` Tim O'Callaghan
2007-04-05 20:56 ` Jason F. McBrayer
2007-04-11 9:09 ` chris
2007-04-11 11:01 ` Bastien
2007-04-11 12:38 ` chris
2007-04-11 20:26 ` publish archives François Lagarde
2007-04-11 14:00 ` Idea: Agenda Search publish? Leo
2007-04-05 18:37 ` Leo
2007-04-23 20:39 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-04-24 17:51 ` Jason F. McBrayer [this message]
2007-04-25 21:21 ` Leo
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