From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastien Subject: Re: Was tj3 --> tikz gantt chart Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:40:39 +0200 Message-ID: <871uxbwzak.fsf@altern.org> References: <87pque4ynz.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38479) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm5Td-0007SJ-1b for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:52:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm5Tb-0002cg-0y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:52:48 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:53929) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm5Ta-0002aM-QK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:52:46 -0400 Received: by mail-wy0-f169.google.com with SMTP id 36so1307220wyg.0 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:52:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (John Hendy's message of "Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:33:37 -0500") 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: John Hendy Cc: Eric S Fraga , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi John, John Hendy writes: > I looked into taskjuggler again, but I can't figure out what the > status is on tj3 and org-mode. AFAICT, Org's Taskjuggler exporter works fine with both tj2 and tj3. You need to configure `org-export-taskjuggler-target-version'. There is some work to be done to make this library even more useful (see the the todo list in org-taskjuggler.el) but it's already usable. I use it for a project. > In any case, it looks like *just* after this discussion, something a > bit more formal came about for gantt charts and TikZ. I thought you > and others might be interested in it: > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gantt-tikz > > It looks like a summary/walkthrough of this package: > http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex_gantt_package.php > > It looks quite reasonable and seems to be as advanced as I'd need for > the moment -- just something to track progress and map action paths > through a project. Anyway, let me know what you think and if you think > org-mode could be adapted to export via that or pull together the > necessary info to generate such a chart based on tags or properties. I > haven't done much with that. Nice -- I'd love to see how Org can produce such TeX gantt charts. Thanks for the pointers, -- Bastien