Hi Bart,
I think should be possible. I'm probably not the one but I think the PGF TikZ package should work out alright. Eric Fraga from this mailing list created a gantt chart in TikZ from a table and it makes me think that this should definitely be possible. You could define some block shapes before hand and tell TikZ what shape/color to make the node diagram based on the table perhaps? Here's a link where Eric provided his code: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/31824 <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/31824>The code was based of this TikZ mailing list code: http://osdir.com/ml/tex.pgf.user/2007-07/msg00007.html <http://osdir.com/ml/tex.pgf.user/2007-07/msg00007.html>Hope that helps a little. Eric might be able to advise a bit further? I don't know that I'd say anything off the shelf exists, but perhaps in looking at his code it could be done. I don't know the elisp well enough to help you further. Good luck! John On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Bart Bunting <b...@bunting.net.au> wrote: > Hi All, > > This is a little bit of a vague question but was hopeing that someone > may have some pointers. > > I am trying to create some business processes with both textual > descriptions of the process in a table format with step numbers and > descriptions etc. I was hopeing to be able to automagicaly convert the > tabular format into a business process diagram. > > I was wondering if anyone has done this in the past using org-mode and > bable some how? > > As I am blind I can't successfully create such diagrams using drawing > software. It occurred to me though that it should (could) be possible > to create diagrams from sufficient information in a table structure. > > The diagrams are the usual flow chart style of thing with steps and > descision > points causing the flow to branch to another point. I thought that if > we had something like the following it may be possible to generate a > diagram. > > > > | Step | Description > | Next Steps | > > |-------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------| > | Begin | Begin the process > | Choice1 | > | Choice1 | Decide if we are big or small. > | Big,Small | > | Big | If we are big then do big things > | End | > | Small | If we are small then figure out if we are really small or > possibly big. | ReallySmall, Big | > | ReallySmall | Yes we are really small > | End | > | End | The end. > | | > > |-------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------| > > > This would represent a process where we start, make a choice if we are big > or small. If we are big we do big things and end. If we are small we make > a choice if we are really small or actually big. If we decide we are > actualy big then we go back to the big step. If not we go on to the end. > > > Anyway just thought I'd ask in case someone had a suggestion how this could > be done using org-mode. > > Cheers > > Bart > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >
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