From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: Was tj3 --> tikz gantt chart Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:46:40 +0000 Message-ID: <87pque4ynz.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49629 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PFkn6-00068b-Vo for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 04:47:01 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PFkn5-0005I2-60 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 04:47:00 -0500 Received: from vscane-a.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.41]:42127) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PFkn5-0005HG-0A for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 04:46:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: (John Hendy's message of "Mon, 8 Nov 2010 16:46:34 -0600") 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: John Hendy Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org John Hendy writes: > Hi Eric, > > While I like tj3, I was looking around for something on tikz/gantt and > found something from the pgf mailing list I thought I'd pass > along. Check it out. [1] Thanks for the link. My own code was based on this snippet of tikz code actually; I just forgot to give a proper attribution . > I'll be tinkering more with this to see if > some kind of table couldn't be used to bring in the right data to form > a gantt chart with tikz in org-mode using babel. which is what I did; did you not see the code in the org file I attached to the message of mine you refer to: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/31824 > Where I'd like to go > (for my purposes): > > - dates generated based on first/last task (or something else) > - smart text placement (yours is varied to be next to the task; easier to go > with the standard of putting them on the left in a colum?) > - some kind of dependency denoting > - varied fonts for top level vs. sub-level items > - pretty it up All of these would be nice. The format of the table I defined is sufficient to enable dependency representation as well, by the way. I look forward to your improvements! Thanks, eric -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 23.2.1 : using Org-mode version 7.02trans (release_7.3.29.gd96c.dirty)