From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Hendy Subject: Re: Was tj3 --> tikz gantt chart Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:58:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87pque4ynz.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87mxer15qd.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37221) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QyNu9-0006fW-Lk for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:59:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QyNu7-0007pG-T6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:59:01 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:44845) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QyNu7-0007pA-Kw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:58:59 -0400 Received: by bkbzt4 with SMTP id zt4so5546711bkb.0 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 05:58:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87mxer15qd.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> 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.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: John Hendy , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > John Hendy writes: > > [...] > >> In any case, it looks like *just* after this discussion, something a >> bit more formal came about for gantt charts and TikZ. I thought you >> and others might be interested in it: >> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gantt-tikz >> >> It looks like a summary/walkthrough of this package: >> http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex_gantt_package.php > > Many thanks for bringing this to our attention. =C2=A0It looks very good = and > definitely much cleaner and prettier than my little hack job! > > It should be fairly straightforward to modify my org table to gantt > chart code to work with this package. =C2=A0I'll add this to my list of j= obs > to do "when I have the time" or "when I next need this functionality", > whichever comes soonest ;-) > One thing to note is that this is using ConTeXt, not [La]Tex. I had actually never heard of it before and there were some notable differences between the file structure, particularly the preamble. Let me know what you think when you dig into that and if org can manage. Bummer the package wasn't for straight LaTeX! John > -- > : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 > : using Org-mode version 7.7 (release_7.7.221.g14c6) >