Re: Code for feature for showing progress in lisp code for creation of Gantt charts

[Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>]

Hi Julia,

sorry for the more-than-late reply.

julia.jacobson@arcor.de writes:

> Some time ago, Eric Fraga had posted a script for generating Gantt
> charts directly out of Org-mode which is very helpful.

The Elisp part for Eric's Gantt generation tool is bit burried in
the mailing list.  gantt.sty is in Worg[1], but the whole thing 
deserves a better treat... glad you improved it.

> Some project management software allows to follow the progress of tasks by
> staining a proportional part of the rectangle for a certain task in
> relation to its completion percentage in green and the rest in red.
> This allows easier evaluation of a project's current status.
> I added this feature to Eric Fraga's code and would like to post it here
> for discussion. It would be great if it could be somehow added to
> Org-mode.

Nice -- thanks for taking this piece of code further.

Would you help enhancing and packaging it in a more usable way?
What we need is this:

1. an Elisp file with the code, with explanations and comments pointing
   to the gantt.sty code

2. a tutorial on Worg

3. maybe a helper function to easily create a ready-for-gantt.sty table
   (basically with all the columns)

Just some ideas (with no dependancies from one to another...)
If you want write access to Worg, just send me your public key.

Thanks!

Footnotes:

[1] http://orgmode.org/worg/code/latex/gantt.sty

-- 
 Bastien