Re: Was tj3 --> tikz gantt chart

[John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> 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.  It 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.  I'll add this to my list of jobs
>>> 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
>
> Ah but the [[http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex/gantt.sty][original]], linked
> to from the site above, *is* for LaTeX and has the same functionality, I
> believe?  It's the one I would use in any case.

Oh wow. I totally missed that that they were not the same. I thought
one was the package and the other a wiki on how to use it. Missed that
the ConTeXt one was a port of the original! Cool deal!

John


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