From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Egli Subject: Re: Org mode for meeting minutes Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 09:28:26 +0100 Message-ID: <87d08zy0yd.fsf@sbs.ch> References: <87imo5j9ks.fsf@sbs.ch> <87bltwsynn.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87sghzxviq.fsf@sbs.ch> <87k13axe5q.fsf@sbs.ch> <57ea3939-e89f-7846-fb4d-e63b3798998f@mailbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37843) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jHNsT-0006S4-K6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2020 04:28:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jHNsS-0002Ya-Df for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2020 04:28:37 -0400 Received: from hermes01.sbs.ch ([194.29.15.86]:37120) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jHNsS-0002X8-7q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2020 04:28:36 -0400 In-reply-to: <57ea3939-e89f-7846-fb4d-e63b3798998f@mailbox.org> 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-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Timm Lichte Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Timm Timm Lichte writes: > Glad you find it interesting. I think both ways of taking notes have > their merits and use cases. In small productive project meetings, I'd > rather use more of the org-mode infrastructure. When there is a larger > event with changing participants and its really important to document > and keep track of what is going on, simple annotated lists fare better > in my experience. I think you are probably right. When taking notes quickly your approach without having to fidget with Tasks is probably faster. I just did not want to stray too far off plain org-mode notation. >> If I understand correctly you are defining some kind of extra list >> markup (is something a task or a decision, etc) and the you wrote a >> custom exporter that produces fancy LaTeX for the minutes (well, if I >> understand correctly it really is a custom exporter that generates >> org-mode and then LaTeX from there). > > Yes, I'm basically extending the syntax for descriptions and > overlaying it with some convenient font-lock. My custom exporter > pushes everything in a temporary buffer and replaces the minutes > notation with LaTeX expressions and then starts the regular > org-export. This probably looks awkward but gives me full flexibility. Well, it might look weird, but I think the idea is good. TBH, I'm not sure if there is another (programatic) way to derive from an existing exporter. > The LaTeX document is just a list of sections with nested itemize > environments. One item would look like this: > > \item \ActionTag{Peter}{::} \ActionTagMargin{Peter}Something to do. > > I've pushed the TeX file of the example to the repository. Hope this > makes it clearer. Ah, yes, this makes it much clearer. I really like this. > I'm really hesitant to make this a MELPA package right away, if this > is what you mean. The font-lock and everything is really individual > and non-generic. But I'll think about it. I understand. Now that I think of it it might be better to package the LaTeX commands into a package on CTAN. I looked at the various LaTeX minutes packages and so far yours seems almost the nicest. Thanks Christian -- Christian Egli Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Z=C3=BCrich, Switzerland