Hi Timm Timm Lichte writes:
> Glad you find it interesting. I think both ways of taking notes have > their merits and use cases. In small productive project meetings, I'd > rather use more of the org-mode infrastructure. When there is a larger > event with changing participants and its really important to document > and keep track of what is going on, simple annotated lists fare better > in my experience. I think you are probably right. When taking notes quickly your approach without having to fidget with Tasks is probably faster. I just did not want to stray too far off plain org-mode notation. >> If I understand correctly you are defining some kind of extra list >> markup (is something a task or a decision, etc) and the you wrote a >> custom exporter that produces fancy LaTeX for the minutes (well, if I >> understand correctly it really is a custom exporter that generates >> org-mode and then LaTeX from there). > > Yes, I'm basically extending the syntax for descriptions and > overlaying it with some convenient font-lock. My custom exporter > pushes everything in a temporary buffer and replaces the minutes > notation with LaTeX expressions and then starts the regular > org-export. This probably looks awkward but gives me full flexibility. Well, it might look weird, but I think the idea is good. TBH, I'm not sure if there is another (programatic) way to derive from an existing exporter. > The LaTeX document is just a list of sections with nested itemize > environments. One item would look like this: > > \item \ActionTag{Peter}{::} \ActionTagMargin{Peter}Something to do. > > I've pushed the TeX file of the example to the repository. Hope this > makes it clearer. Ah, yes, this makes it much clearer. I really like this. > I'm really hesitant to make this a MELPA package right away, if this > is what you mean. The font-lock and everything is really individual > and non-generic. But I'll think about it. I understand. Now that I think of it it might be better to package the LaTeX commands into a package on CTAN. I looked at the various LaTeX minutes packages and so far yours seems almost the nicest. Thanks Christian -- Christian Egli Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland