From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Egli Subject: Re: LaTeX calendar from org-mode agenda? Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:04:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87fwzlglpc.fsf@saadawi.sbszh.ch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45494 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OZKN2-0002Ob-Vh for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:04:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZKN1-0006MQ-4K for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:04:44 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50609) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZKN0-0006M9-Q1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:04:43 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZKMy-0006y9-SH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:04:40 +0200 Received: from gateway01.sbszh.ch ([217.162.18.85]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:04:40 +0200 Received: from christian.egli by gateway01.sbszh.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:04:40 +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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org "Alan E. Davis" writes: > It seems possible that at least one of the LaTeX / org gurus on this > list has used LaTeX monthly calendars. I have had some problems with > LaTeX calendars, but they look really nice, and it would seem not > unlikely to use that format as an output from Org-agenda. Well, I haven't used it in a while, but there is code[1] in the contrib section that generates hipster pda style calendars[2] for you. Admittedly it just uses the cal-tex-* infrastructure, so if you have problems with that, I guess this is of little help. > I found LaTeX monthly calendars pretty ridiculous when they are > bloated with dozens of repeated tasks from the diary file. A well > sorted list of events would seem to me to suite this nice-looking hard > copy calendar nicely. Maybe you should define what your requirements are, i.e. how exactly you want your calendar to look. Then as a next step you might want to try to get a mock-up using tikz (and its calendar library)[3]. Once you have that I'd be happy to hack up some lisp that generates the tikz latex from say an Org Mode Agenda view or from a diary file. > The ability to print out a nice, concise hardcopy checklist from > org-agenda would make a world of difference. OK, this seems like another requirement unrelated to the calendar above. You know that you can export an agenda view to PDF, html or text[4]. If that is not enough, again, create a mock-up using tikz to make it really nice looking. I will then help you to write the lisp to generate the needed latex. I've long wanted some nice looking export of the agenda. Your input might just give me enough impetus to hack something up. Thanks Christian Footnotes: [1] http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode.git/blob/HEAD:/contrib/scripts/org2hpda [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_PDA [3] http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/feature/calendar-library/ [4] http://orgmode.org/manual/Exporting-Agenda-Views.html -- Christian Egli Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland