Re: [O] Mobile org

[Kenneth Jacker]

> there are people besides just me that use it :)


​Yes ... like me!

*OrgMode* is one of my most used ​"systems".

Getting *MobileOrg* updated would be great!

-Kenneth

Re: [O] Seeing Actual Emphasis in Orgmode Buffer

[Kenneth Jacker]

Hey Eric!

Thanks for the fast and detailed help.

I'll try 'set-face-attribute' later.

Will advise how it goes ...

Thanks again,

-Kenneth

Re: [O] Seeing Actual Emphasis in Orgmode Buffer

[Kenneth Jacker]

> What do you get?

character: o (111, #o157, #x6f)
  preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
   code point: 0x6F
   syntax: w which means: word
 category: .:Base, a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman
  buffer code: #x6F
file code: #x6F (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
  display: by this font (glyph code)
x:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1 (#x6F)

Character code properties: customize what to show
  name: LATIN SMALL LETTER O
  general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase)

There are text properties here:
  face (bold)
  font-lock-multiline  t
  fontifiedt
  line-prefix  [Show]
  org-emphasis t
  wrap-prefix  [Show]


​Thanks!

-Kenneth
​

Re: [O] Seeing Actual Emphasis in Orgmode Buffer

[Kenneth Jacker]

Thanks for you suggestions Marco, but I still can't figure out how to get
the "styles"/"emphasis" displayed in a '.org' file buffer.

As mentioned before, the variable "org-fontify-emphasized-text" is set to
`t' (non-nil).

Documentation says this about that variable:

Non-nil means fontify *bold*, /italic/ and _underlined_ text.

Anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks,

-Kenneth

Re: [O] Seeing Actual Emphasis in Orgmode Buffer

[Kenneth Jacker]

>
> Are you sure you have a font that supports italic or boldface variants?
>

​Hmmm ... not sure I know how to check that ...

Might you suggest a "variable", "function"  or "menu item" that would​

​indicate whether the needed "font support" was there/enabled?
​

> It works out of the box on my Emacs, but I didn't mess up with the
> default font.


​I don't *think* I did anything with the "default font" either ...

So you actually see the "bold" rendering in the "buffer" corresponding to
the  ".org" file ​?

​If so, there is "hope" for me  ;-)​


​Thanks for your comments!

-Kenneth​

[O] Seeing Actual Emphasis in Orgmode Buffer

[Kenneth Jacker]

[ Orgmode v8.3.1 ]

How can I have Emacs actually display /foo/, *bar*, _blah_ emphasis *in an
Orgmode buffer*?
Note that I am not "exporting" HTML, LaTeX, or friends (where I assume the
above markups get correctly styled as italics, bold, etc.).


Is there some way to do this?

"org-fontify-emphasized-text" is non-nil.


Anyone know how to do this?  Sorry if I'm missing the obvious!

Thanks,

-Kenneth

-- 
Prof Kenneth H Jacker   k...@cs.appstate.edu
Computer Science Dept www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC  28608  USA

Re: [O] Display Agenda in Reverse Order

[Kenneth Jacker]

  smt> Take a look at
  smt>
  smt>org-agenda-sorting-strategy
  smt>
  smt> It should help you out.

It did ... thanks for the info!

For others who might want to do the same or something similar,
I'll show what I did to change the "sorting order" ...


I changed the value of "org-agenda-sorting-strategy" from this:

   ((agenda habit-down time-up priority-down category-keep)
(todo priority-down category-keep)
(tags priority-down category-keep)
(search category-keep))
   
to this:

   ((agenda habit-down time-up scheduled-down priority-down category-keep)
(todo priority-down category-keep)
(tags priority-down category-keep)
(search category-keep))
   
Inserting "scheduled-down" did "the trick!


Thanks again,

  -Kenneth

Re: [O] Display Agenda in Reverse Order

[Kenneth Jacker]

  smt> Take a look at
  smt>
  smt>org-agenda-sorting-strategy

Will do!

  smt> It should help you out.

Once I figure out how to configure it!  ;-)

  smt> Note though that the timestamp sorting does not work on all
  smt> agenda types, it's a known bug.

OK.


Thanks for your useful and prompt reply!


  -Kenneth

[O] Display Agenda in Reverse Order

[Kenneth Jacker]

Looked around some, but could find nothing that helped ...
So I ask the list!

When I display my "agenda", the oldest (scheduled) items are earlier in
the buffer, and the newest (today) are at the very end.

Is there a simple way to reverse that "schedule order"?

Ideally, my "timed" appointments (grid) would be displayed first, and
then followed by today's scheduled items, yesterday's "left over" items,
and so on until the oldest is shown at the very end.



As a major procrastinator, I have lines like this:

 personal:   Sched.389x:  TODO  Work on foobar

Yes originally scheduled over a year ago!  :(

I'd rather those very old items were at the *bottom* of the "agenda"
... easier to continue to ignore them that way ... ;-)




Thanks for any ideas/suggestions!

-- 
Prof Kenneth H Jacker (emeritus)  k...@cs.appstate.edu
Computer Science Deptwww.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC  28608  USA

Re: [O] Entering Repeating Scheduled Tasks in the Minibuffer

[Kenneth Jacker]

  ji> Have you tried <2014-12-15 +1m> for a monthly repeater?
  ji> <2014-12-15 +1w> for a weekly repeater and
  ji> <2014-12-15 +1d> for a daily repeater.

Yes, I'm already doing that and all of them work.


But, that's not my issue ...

I can add the "+1m" (or whatever) in a newly created "capture" buffer
*after* I type the date/time, task description, and .

But how to do this sooner?


I'd like to enter something like "Jan 7 +1y" in the mini-buffer while
creating the new item.

Maybe there is a way to do this, but I don't know how!  ;-)

Sorry if this is still unclear ... hard to describe ...


Thanks for your comments,

  -Kenneth

Re: [O] Entering Repeating Scheduled Tasks in the Minibuffer

[Kenneth Jacker]

So, no one has any ideas about the syntax for an all-in-minibuffer
specification of a repeated, scheduled event?

  -Kenneth

PS  Thanks, Pete, for your explaining  "(=F)" ...

[O] Entering Repeating Scheduled Tasks in the Minibuffer

[Kenneth Jacker]

Good day!

Is there a way that I can specify a scheduled task's repeat period
within a single "time specification" in the minibuffer?  I thought
something like this would work:

Dec 25 +1y

but it neither inserts the "repeater" nor gives any error message.

I've tried various things and checked the manual, but can't seem to find
the right combination of keystrokes.


Thanks for your comments!


PS  What is the meaning of "(=>F)" that appears at the end of the minibuffer?

-- 
Prof Kenneth H Jacker (ret)   k...@cs.appstate.edu
Computer Science Dept www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC  28608  USA

[O] Indentation Problem Using LaTeX Export

[Kenneth Jacker]

Good day!

In LaTeX terms, I believe an "\end{itemize}" is closing a list later
that I want.  Its kind of hard to explain, but I'll try via an example ...

I basically have a couple of nested outlines and body text.  Something
like this in Org format:

 * Alpha
 
 porttitor, elit at imperdiet consequat, nunc nisl dapibus dui, eu
 fermentum ipsum magna et mi. Sed egestas erat et dolor lobortis, sit
 amet cursus
 
 ** Alpha1
 
 ** Alpha2
 
 lorem tincidunt. Vivamus eget bibendum est. Integer justo mauris,
 sodales eget commodo quis, faucibus non est. Nulla facilisi

 
this produces something like:

 1 Alpha
 
 porttitor, elit at imperdiet consequat, nunc nisl dapibus dui, eu
 fermentum ipsum magna et mi. Sed egestas erat et dolor lobortis, sit
 amet cursus
 
1.1 Alpha1
 
1.2 Alpha2
 
==> lorem tincidunt. Vivamus eget bibendum est. Integer justo mauris,
==> sodales eget commodo quis, faucibus non est. Nulla facilisi


whereas I want it to be formated like this:

 1 Alpha
 
 porttitor, elit at imperdiet consequat, nunc nisl dapibus dui, eu
 fermentum ipsum magna et mi. Sed egestas erat et dolor lobortis, sit
 amet cursus
 
1.1 Alpha1
 
1.2 Alpha2
 
 ==> lorem tincidunt. Vivamus eget bibendum est. Integer justo mauris,
 ==> sodales eget commodo quis, faucibus non est. Nulla facilisi


IOW, I want the "lorem tincidunt" body to be associated with the "Alpha"
heading, not the "Alpha2" one.


I can use a "work around" via editing the LaTeX file.  But, is there a
way to do this entirely within Org?  Maybe a "bug"?


Thanks,
-- 
Prof Kenneth H Jacker (ret)   k...@cs.appstate.edu
Computer Science Dept www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC  28608  USA

Re: [O] Paper Size for Exported LaTeX

[Kenneth Jacker]

  ak> Anyway, if you prefer to specify margins directly, rather than calculating
  ak> them via \textwidth, you can also use the geometry package, e.g.

  ak> #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[various options]{geometry}

And that's what I did ...

Thanks to all who contributed to my initial query!

  -Kenneth

Re: [O] Paper Size for Exported LaTeX

[Kenneth Jacker]

  ndokos> This may be a TeX installation default.

Apparently, 'letter' is the default.

  ndokos> If it is indeed the case that it is using A4 (check it with
  ndokos> pdfinfo on linux, ...

Good suggestion.  I used 'pdfinfo' on the generated PDF file and saw
(among other output) this:

Page size:  612 x 792 pts (letter)

So, I guess I need to explicitly change the L/R and top/bottom margins.

Here's what I do using emacs/latex without Org:

 \setlength{\textheight}{9.25in}
 \setlength{\textwidth}{6.75in}
 \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0in}
 \setlength{\evensidemargin}{0in}
 \setlength{\topmargin}{-0.6in}

Can I just put the above somewhere near the beginning of my .org file?
Or, is there a "better" way?  ;-)

Sorry if dumb questions, but am trying to figure out the org/latex
approach ...

Thanks for the 'pdfinfo' tip ... 

-Kenneth

Re: [O] Paper Size for Exported LaTeX

[Kenneth Jacker]

  tsd> Aloha Kenneth,

Hello!  (Reminds me of the three months I lived on Kauai ...)

  tsd> I think this will do what you want:
  tsd>
  tsd>#+LATEX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [letterpaper]

That was one of the things I tried before posting to the ML.

Saw no difference in the margins, etc.


Thanks for your comments!

  -Kenneth

[O] Paper Size for Exported LaTeX

[Kenneth Jacker]

[ Org-mode version 8.3beta (release_8.3beta-175-g59cd25 ]

First time I've used the LaTeX exporting ...

I have a hunch the default paper size is "A4".
Margins are *way* too wide ...

How do I change it to "letter"?

I tried a few things, but they don't seem to be changing anything!


Thanks for your help,
-- 
Prof Kenneth H Jacker (ret)   k...@cs.appstate.edu
Computer Science Dept www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC  28608  USA


  

Re: [O] Tracking Current Org Version

[Kenneth Jacker]

Thanks, Suvayu, for your quick response!

  sa> This should help you
  sa>
  sa>   http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#Keeping-current

Yes, I've seen that ... in fact, have it "bookmarked" already ... the
procedure therein explained is what I've been doing.

But I'm still unclear about "versions" ...

How do I find the "commit" that corresponds to the "org-version"
variable value?

And what about the ELPA 'tar' files?  How do they relate to the 'git' repo?

Just wanting to understand what I'm doing,  ;-)


Thanks again,

-Kenneth

[O] Tracking Current Org Version

[Kenneth Jacker]

Good day!

I am using 'git' to (I hope!) keep up to date on the latest Org distribution.

For me, there is a little confusion on just which version I'm using ...

I changed to the org-mode "git managed" directory, and entered:

$ make update

{ Do I need to do more?  I followed the above with
  "make" and "make install" ... necessary? }

After performing the above yesterday and then checking with "M-x org-version" 
shows:

   Org-mode version 8.3beta (release_8.3beta-175-g59cd25

Is that the latest?  No date is included ...


In addition, I receive announcements from  that shows things like:

   Latest: org-20140804.tar, 2014-Aug-04, 5.21MB

How does *that* differ/compare to what 'git' is downloading?

What is the "best" way to do this?  ;-)


Thanks for your comments,

-- 
Prof Kenneth H Jacker (ret)   k...@cs.appstate.edu
Computer Science Dept www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC  28608  USA

Re: [O] Show Only Diary Entries in Agenda

[Kenneth Jacker]

  khj> I'd like to toggle (hide/show) the *non*-diary entries in the
  khj> agenda view ... to basically get a quick view of my diary/calender.

Sorry about replying to my own posting, but I just realized this can be
done simply:

  *  Move to a "Diary" entry in the "Agenda" display

  *  Enter `<' (org-agenda-filter-by-category)

... and just the "Diary" entries are displayed!

Easy!

  -Kenneth

-- 
Prof Kenneth H Jacker   k...@cs.appstate.edu
Computer Science Dept   www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC  28608  USA

[O] Show Only Diary Entries in Agenda

[Kenneth Jacker]

I'd like to toggle (hide/show) the *non*-diary entries in the agenda
view ... to basically get a quick view of my diary/calender.

'org-agenda-toggle-diary', toggles the Diary entries.  Maybe something
like 'org-agenda-toggle-nondiary'?

I tried to configure a custom agenda view, but failed ... I'm not sure
that's the way to go anyway ...

Ideas?

Thanks,
-- 
Prof Kenneth H Jacker   k...@cs.appstate.edu
Computer Science Dept   www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC  28608  USA

Re: [O] org-mouse

[Kenneth Jacker]

  >> Do I need something else?

  nd> No, evaling the require should be enough.

OK.

  nd> Try clicking button-1 on an asterisk of a heading in an org file:
  nd> does it fold the item? If so, it's working :-)

Yes, that does!  Guess I was clicking in the inactive areas of the heading.


Thanks for your help!

  -Kenneth

Re: [O] org-mouse: solved

[Kenneth Jacker]

  rs> I needed to configure variable org-mouse-features

Ah, the other part that I didn't know about ... ;-)


Thanks to all for the help,

  -Kenneth

[O] org-mouse

[Kenneth Jacker]

[ Xubuntu 12.04.3;  Xfce 4.8;  Wfwm 4.8.3; org-mode 8.2.1 ]

As stated in the ELisp source file, I put this in my .emacs:

(require 'org-mouse)

I then "evaled" the above, and even restarted Emacs, but I can't seem to
get any additional "mouse behavior" in Org.

Do I need something else?


Sorry if I've missed the obvious,
-- 
Prof Kenneth H Jacker   k...@cs.appstate.edu
Computer Science Dept   www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC  28608  USA

Re: [O] Using Multiple TODO Keywords

[Kenneth Jacker]

  bzg> Hi Kenneth,

Hello, Bastien!

Sorry to have taken so long to reply ...

  >> When I use `t' or "C-c C-t", the keywords change from TODO, to PENDING,
  >> to CANCELED, and then repeat *only those three states*.
  >> 
  >> Shouldn't I be able to use the above to mark the this week's task as DONE?

  bzg> If you use fast TODO selection like this

  bzg> #+SEQ_TODO: TODO PENDING | CANCELED DONE(d)

  bzg> (note the (d) after DONE) then you'll be able to set the task DONE,

Great minds think alike?  ;-)

That's what I ended up using soon after my ML posting.

  bzg> but the presence of the repeater will still let the TODO state
  bzg> switch to the next one, namely "TODO".

Yes.  

I'm still a bit baffled by the behavior of "repeaters" ...

  bzg> Maybe we should introduce a way to ignore the repeater -- is anyone
  bzg> missing this too?

Not that important to me ... at least for now ... still trying to learn
how to use the more basic (viz., task scheduling) elements within Org.

Thanks for taking the time to reply,

  -Kenneth

[O] Using Multiple TODO Keywords

[Kenneth Jacker]

[ Ubuntu; Org 8.2 ]

I've defined this:

 (setq org-todo-keywords
   '((sequence "TODO" "PENDING" "|" "CANCELED" "DONE")))

And then created a simple, repeating task:

 ** TODO Mow the lawn
 <2013-10-03 Thu +1w>


When I use `t' or "C-c C-t", the keywords change from TODO, to PENDING,
to CANCELED, and then repeat *only those three states*.

Shouldn't I be able to use the above to mark the this week's task as DONE?


Sorry if I'm missing something obvious!
-- 
Prof Kenneth H Jacker   k...@cs.appstate.edu
Computer Science Dept   www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC  28608  USA

Re: [O] Trouble with Export

[Kenneth Jacker]

  jh> For starters, =M-x org-export= is the old exporter. 

Yes, that's what I was running ...

  jh> Have you followed along with the upgrade guide?  -
  jh>http://orgmode.org/worg/org-8.0.html

Hadn't seen that yet ... thanks for the reference.

  jh> Please try =C-c C-e h h= and see if that fares any better.

Yes, much better!

Before, I'd used =C-c C-e h h=, but couldn't remember the key binding to
invoke it. So, I was directly invoking 'org-export'.

Sorry for the oversight ... still new to Org (coming from using
Planner for *many* years) ... got a lot more to learn ...

Thanks!

  -Kenneth

PS  Are there release notes somewhere for the latest 8.0.7?  I tried
http://orgmode.org/Changes.html, but it only referred to 8.0.3 ...

[O] Trouble with Export

[Kenneth Jacker]

[ Ubuntu 12.04.2; org-8.0.7 ]

I was working on this file (as well as other more complicated ones):

 * alpha
 * beta
   * b1
   * b2
 * gamma

and I invoked 'org-export'.  Entering an `h' produced these errors:

  Exporting...
(New file)
org-export-preprocess-string: Wrong number of arguments: #[(&optional 
sort-only) "ÆÀ!……S‰…
ƒÇ_S‚ȃ*ÉÊ\"‚+ËPÌ͉56Í7ŠebˆÎ 
‰6ƒÔ6@86A@98…ZÏ87\"‰:A@†f
T‰;Ð68;†tÐ:8<=ƒ„Ç68bˆ‚¨6A@Ç68|ˆ6A@bˆÉÑ;\"cˆ<ƒ¨>ƒ¨Ò
 ˆ:„ÐÐ68†ºÐÓ8!8?8;?<Ô9!¯7B7)-‚<@ƒ
ÕÖ!ƒ

ebˆ×ØÙ@!ÚQÍÛ#ƒø̔Üۉ\"|ˆdbˆÝÍxˆÍyˆn„X
Þ 
ˆ‚X
ÕÖ!„X
Aƒ;
ßÙA!ÚQBebˆ×BÍÛ#ƒ:
à
á!ˆ`Íyˆ`|ˆ‚#
)Õâ!ƒU
dbƒU
ãCÍÛ#ƒU
ä ˆ‚X
dbˆå 
5æÍçè7\"\"‰7Ÿ7éê7\"ˆ5bˆ7?†â
ÕÖ!ƒ…

@ƒÝ
ÕÖ!„ª
ëÍxˆ`5|ˆn„›
Þ ˆAƒÅ
ìA챈‚Å

íDžAƒ¾
îŠï )!ƒ¾
ìcˆð@챈5͉“ˆñò7ì#cˆm?…
â
óc‚â
éô7\".‡" [org-inlinetask-min-level limit-level 
org-odd-levels-only nstars org-outline-regexp count boundp 2 "\\*" format ...] 
7 ("/home/khj/L/emacs/org/org-8.0.7/lisp/org-footnote.elc" . 16138)], 2

Tried to figure out what's wrong, but failed.  The same behavior occurs
when using the prior 8.0.6.


Anyone have any ideas what's wrong?

Thanks,

  -Kenneth
-- 
Prof Kenneth H Jacker   k...@cs.appstate.edu
Computer Science Dept   www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC  28608  USA

Re: [O] Latest Org Compatible with Emacs 23.3.1

[Kenneth Jacker]

  ng> (scroll-up-line) is the same as (scroll-up 1).

I see ... simple fix!

Thanks,

  -Kenneth

Re: [O] Latest Org Compatible with Emacs 23.3.1

[Kenneth Jacker]

  >> The messages suggest that 8.0.6 is not compatible with my version of
  >> Emacs.

  ng> Org will try to be compatible with Emacs 23 at least until Emacs
  ng> 25 release. I fixed the compilation errors. They should be gone in
  ng> Org 8.0.7.

Excellent!

How did you "get around" the missing Emacs functions (scroll-up-line and
scroll-down-line)?  Made/included your own?  ;-)

  ng> Thank you for reporting them.

You are welcome.

  >> Though I was able to run it, I am concerned that some of the
  >> functionality might be "broken" and I'll run into "trouble" later.

  ng> The errors you're getting are minor (they are about exporter
  ng> UI). I'm pretty sure you can use current version without problems,
  ng> until next one is out.

OK, guess I'll continue using 8.0.6 until the 8.0.7 release.


I appreciate the prompt and helpful reply!

  -Kenneth

Re: [O] Latest Org Compatible with Emacs 23.3.1

[Kenneth Jacker]

  jk> I was rude, sorry.  I C-s ed for error and landed up in makeinfo.
  jk>
  jk> The messages pertaining to scroll etc usually pop up as warning
  jk> messages in Emacs-24.  This is routine.  I didn't anticipate the
  jk> functions were not defined on Emacs 23 so I just overlooked them.

No problem ... thanks for your apology.


  -Kenneth

[O] Latest Org Compatible with Emacs 23.3.1

[Kenneth Jacker]

Good day!

I'm running emacs-23.3.1 on an up-to-date Xubuntu 12.04.2 system.
It includes orgmode-6.33x.

I downloaded orgmode-8.0.6, but the "build" failed with these error
messages:

   

0make
Description: Binary data

The messages suggest that 8.0.6 is not compatible with my version of Emacs.

Though I was able to run it, I am concerned that some of the
functionality might be "broken" and I'll run into "trouble" later.


So, wanting to use the latest version possible, I ask: 

What is the latest version of Orgmode that I can use?

From where might I down it?


Thanks for your comments/suggestions!

  -Kenneth
-- 
Prof Kenneth H Jacker   k...@cs.appstate.edu
Computer Science Dept   www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC  28608  USA