Re: Process diagrams with dot and some glue using Org-mode

[Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>]

* Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com> wrote:
>
> Two things:
>
> 	1. You don't need to write table parsing code, as passing in a
> 	   table as an argument to a code block will convert it to an
> 	   array. 
>
> 	   #+name: ptable
>| head1 | head2 |
>|-------+-------|
>| a     |     1 |
>| b     |     2 |
[...]
> 	   #+RESULTS:
>| a | 1 |
>| b | 2 |
[...]
> 		   t=[["a", 1], ["b", 2]]

You're right, I totally forgot about this neat feature.

However, the header information seems to get lost. This requires
hard-coded column content which is a minor drawback of this method.

> 	2. You can also use the pydot or pygraphviz libraries for
> 	   generating the graph directly from python instead of generating
> 	   dot code.

Thanks for the pointer!

If somebody else is looking for an example (or some less formal
documentation), take a look at [1] which gave me a much better
start-up than the pydot web page.

  1. https://pythonhaven.wordpress.com/tag/pydot/
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