Re: Business process diagrams in org-mode

["Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>]

On Nov 16, 2010, at 6:35 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> Bart Bunting <bart@bunting.net.au> writes:
>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> Thanks very much for the suggestion!
>>
>> I'm not familiar with dot but will invest some time to see if I can  
>> get
>> my head around it.
>>
>> This sounds like a good solution.  Perhaps just writing directly in  
>> dot
>> will solve my problem.
>
> Possibly, although as it is possibly nicer to work with org tables,  
> and
> because my train was delayed 45 minutes on the way to work this  
> morning,
> here (attached as an org file with babel emacs lisp code) is one  
> attempt
> at a solution.
>
> There is one bug in this code: for some reason, the dot code generated
> by the emacs lisp code gets embedded in an org EXAMPLE block.  Not  
> sure
> why but I have to do something else now...  I'll try to come back to
> this later.
>
> Oh, I also changed your table so that each next step takes up a column
> entry in the table.  This is not ideal but I didn't want to bother
> parsing the actual table entries.
>
> <businessprocess.org>
> HTH,
> eric

Hi Eric,

Neat!  This gets rid of the #+begin_example ... #+end_example for me:

#+call: esf/business-process[:results value raw](table=processtable,  
file="business.pdf", name="process") :results value raw

All the best,
Tom