From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric Schulte" Subject: Re: org-babel python/shell or gantt charts with gnuplot from within org-mode Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:51:10 -0600 Message-ID: <871veji3sk.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O1lDQ-0000Ml-DP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:52:04 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34246 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1lDO-0000MZ-7P for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:52:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1lDL-000160-UA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:52:02 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f200.google.com ([209.85.222.200]:44688) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1lDL-00015s-PU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:51:59 -0400 Received: by pzk38 with SMTP id 38so4256132pzk.25 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:51:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Erik Butz's message of "Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:02:28 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Erik Butz Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Erik Butz writes: > Hi all, > > I have been playing around with org-mode and have been thinking about > the possibility to create gantt charts with org-mode. I did not find > anything in the archives, and todays thread about taskjuggler brought > me back to the subject. > > This is a python script hovering around the web (gantt.py) which > enables gant charts with gnuplot. I played around with this a bit so > as to have it accept ISO timestamps (%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S) and or > durations. Now I am looking for a way to execute this from within > org-mode probably using org-babel > > The (bash) syntax would be something like > > python gantt.py -t "Title" -i input.txt | gnuplot -persist > > I would like to pass an org table to the script instead of the input > file so the equivalent of doing > > cat input | python gantt.py -t "Title" | gnuplot -persist > > The input structure is (e.g.) > > Task 1 2010-4-2T12:00:00 1 validate > Task 2 2010-4-5T12:00:00 5.25 something > Task 3 2010-4-5T12:00:00 2010-4-10T0:00:00 otherthing > Task 4 5.5 yet another thing > which could well be the column mode representation of a file probably. > something like the following in will allow you to pass a table to a series of shell commands #+tblname: tasks | Task 1 | 2010-4-2T12:00:00 | 1 | validate | | Task 2 | 2010-4-5T12:00:00 | 5.25 | something | | Task 3 | 2010-4-5T12:00:00 | 2010-4-10T0:00:00 | otherthing | #+begin_src sh :var tasks=tasks echo "$tasks" |wc #+end_src #+results: : 3 15 130 you can also use a gnuplot block to accept the output of gantt.py, and once everything is working it can be packaged up into a library of babel [1] function which could then be called with a short line like. #+call: gantt(tasks=my-task-table) Hope that helps, let me know if you have any more questions. -- Eric > > I am sorry should this be a bit vague. > > Please let me know if I can provide any more information to clarify the problem > > Cheers and thanks, > > Erik > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode Footnotes: [1] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/library-of-babel.php