Re: [O] Bug: Recurring items NEVER show up in timeline unaccompanied

2011-03-24 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi everyone, On 22.3.2011, at 21:10, Nick Dokos wrote: > Some more comments and another bug in org-timeline: > > o a repeater always gets reported on its initial date - it only gets reported > on subsequent instances iff it coincides with some other entry that will be > reported on that date.

Re: [O] [babel] Variable support for ob-maxima

2011-03-24 Thread Thomas Holst
Hi Eric, · Eric Schulte wrote: > Thomas Holst writes: [... snip ...] > Great, thanks for sharing this patch, I'd very much like to apply this. > Have you seen the instructions for contributing to Org-mode [1]? Any > patch over 10 lines long requires signed FSF copyright attribution > papers.

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-24 Thread Bastien
Dear all, I applied the patches too hastily, disregarding some inconsistency they could introduce between exporters -- sorry for that. I fully agree with Nick and Thomas (and others who also agreed): Org's export facilities need some real love and new export features need to be introduced as comp

[O] Re: FR: broken links and footnote references

2011-03-24 Thread Samuel Wales
Not sure if this thread was clear enough to make it interesting. I am suggesting that when you export a subtree or a region, and you have a link to an anchor (e.g. a link to a <<...>>>), and that link is broken, because the referent is outside of the subtree or region, we can do this: Get the l

[O] Re: advice: how to export a list without exporting all entries

2011-03-24 Thread Eric S Fraga
Nicolas writes: > Hello, > > Eric S Fraga writes: > >> I would like to move to a system in which all the actions are numbered >> sequentially. At present, they are numbered sequentially within a list >> for each meeting. I would like to have a single list which grows over >> time. However, whe

Re: [O] Re: s-tab not working as intended in kde's konsole

2011-03-24 Thread Eric S Fraga
Izzie writes: [...] >> However, one must ask: why use emacs in console mode if you are running >> kde? This does limit what emacs can do. > > Remote editing of files through ssh often (but not always) inside screen is > the > reason. I know about tramp but haven't had time to look into it yet

Re: [O] Customizing LaTeX-export, Beamer, \institute, and BEAMER_envargs

2011-03-24 Thread Eric S Fraga
Bernd Weiss writes: > Dear all, > > I am preparing a Beamer presentation and I am having some trouble with > side effects (?) due to my attempt to customize the LaTeX-export. My > minimum example can be found below. > > The default LaTeX-export does not recognise the '\institute'-option (I > mean

Re: [O] orgmode and rss

2011-03-24 Thread Eric S Fraga
Jude DaShiell writes: > A long-standing friend is looking for a platform he can use to write rss > and publish it. Earlier today I read about plannermode being able to do > this and don't yet have plannermode on my machine but do have orgmode. So > I'm curious if this can be done. He has to

[O] [babel] Calling source blocks with arguments

2011-03-24 Thread Philipp Haselwarter
Hi, Is there a way to call a source-block with (positional) arguments, like one would do on the command line? I want to include some shell scripts in a paper and would prefer not having to introduce some kind of artificial variables. So I could just write my scripts inline, like #+srcname: scri

Re: [O] Specifying \institute[short]{long] in Beamer presentations

2011-03-24 Thread Eric S Fraga
Bernd Weiss writes: > Dear all, > > I assume that my first email[1], which I sent yesterday, was not clear > enough to draw any/enough attention. No, it was clear enough but unfortunately most of us do have day jobs to attend to despite the attraction of playing with org and responding to the ma

Re: [O] Specifying \institute[short]{long] in Beamer presentations

2011-03-24 Thread Camille persson
Hi, I'm not sure but maybe you could declare it in your org file as: #+MACRO: BEAMERINSTITUTELONG My long and detailed Institute #+MACRO: BEAMERINSTITUTESHORT Short Institute And change the export code as follows: \\institute[beamerinstituteshort]beamerinstitutelong\n But I didn't tes

[O] error in tableformula or bug

2011-03-24 Thread Martin Halder
Hi again, have traced it down to the following commit which introduces the problem (thanks to bisect): [3dd474575205d3808390fc6ea2d5feccdb3d4305] Tables: Make @< and $< point to row/column 1 in a stable way Was there a change in the format or is it really a bug ? Thanks for help, Martin > fo

Re: [O] Specifying \institute[short]{long] in Beamer presentations

2011-03-24 Thread Bernd Weiss
Am 24.03.2011 04:59, schrieb PASZTOR Miklos: On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 07:18:45PM -0400, Bernd Weiss wrote: I am currently preparing a Beamer presentation and I would like to include \institute[short]{long} into my org-file; This works for me: #+BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA: \institute{My insitute}

Re: [O] Specifying \institute[short]{long] in Beamer presentations

2011-03-24 Thread Bernd Weiss
Am 23.03.2011 22:51, schrieb Suvayu Ali: On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:18:45 -0400 Bernd [...] I am currently preparing a Beamer presentation and I would like to include \institute[short]{long} into my org-file; it is important that I am able to define a short and a long entry for institute. How can

Re: [O] Specifying \institute[short]{long] in Beamer presentations

2011-03-24 Thread Bernd Weiss
Am 24.03.2011 05:42, schrieb Camille persson: Hi, I'm not sure but maybe you could declare it in your org file as: #+MACRO: BEAMERINSTITUTELONG My long and detailed Institute #+MACRO: BEAMERINSTITUTESHORT Short Institute And change the export code as follows: \\institute[beamerinstituteshort

Re: [O] Customizing LaTeX-export, Beamer, \institute, and BEAMER_envargs

2011-03-24 Thread Eric S Fraga
Bernd Weiss writes: [...] > Hi Eric, > > Thanks for your help! Unfortunately, that's not what I was looking for > and, therefore, rephrased my unclear question ("Specifying > \institute[short]{long] in Beamer presentations"). As pointed out by > Miklós or Suvayu, the solution was embarrassingly

Re: [O] Customizing LaTeX-export, Beamer, \institute, and BEAMER_envargs

2011-03-24 Thread Bernd Weiss
Am 24.03.2011 05:16, schrieb Eric S Fraga: Bernd Weiss writes: Dear all, I am preparing a Beamer presentation and I am having some trouble with side effects (?) due to my attempt to customize the LaTeX-export. My minimum example can be found below. The default LaTeX-export does not recognise

[O] Re: "Tag hierarchy" idea

2011-03-24 Thread Jambunathan K
IIUC, what you are saying is that you would like to define few atomic tags and a few composite tag. A composite tag is presumably a union of some of those atomic tags. You need an ability to selectively export of the items that fall under the composite tag. Orgmode allows selective viewing (and e

[O] Using org-mode for recipes (i.e. cooking)

2011-03-24 Thread Le Wang
Hi all, I'm fairly new to org-mode, and I only use it as an outliner / note taking tool. It seems recipes, being a list of ingredients and a series of steps is a perfect match for org-mode. Out of the box, org already works pretty well for recipes, but I think there are some areas for improved i

Re: [O] error in tableformula or bug

2011-03-24 Thread Carsten Dominik
On 24.3.2011, at 10:46, Martin Halder wrote: > Hi again, > > have traced it down to the following commit which introduces the problem > (thanks to bisect): > [3dd474575205d3808390fc6ea2d5feccdb3d4305] Tables: Make @< and $< point to > row/column 1 in a stable way > > Was there a change in th

[O] Editing source code function name?

2011-03-24 Thread Julian Burgos
Hello fellow org-moders, We use C-c ' to edit the current code block. I would like to use a different key combination, but I cannot figure out the name of function that is called when pressing C-c'. I (think) I need it to map the new key combination in my .emacs file. Thanks for the help, Julian

[O] Re: Editing source code function name?

2011-03-24 Thread Jambunathan K
Julian Burgos writes: > Hello fellow org-moders, > > We use C-c ' to edit the current code block. I would like to use a > different key combination, but I cannot figure out the name of > function that is called when pressing C-c'. I (think) I need it to > map the new key combination in my .emacs

Re: [O] Editing source code function name?

2011-03-24 Thread Giovanni Ridolfi
Julian Burgos writes: Hi, Julian, > We use C-c ' to edit the current code block. I would like to use a > different key combination, but I cannot figure out the name of > function that is called when pressing C-c'. C-h a org src (apropos) gives a new buffer, where you can find: o

[O] Re: Editing source code function name?

2011-03-24 Thread Julian Burgos
C-h k! Great tool... you learn something new every day. Thanks!! On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Jambunathan K wrote: > Julian Burgos writes: > >> Hello fellow org-moders, >> >> We use C-c ' to edit the current code block. I would like to use a >> different key combination, but I cannot figur

Re: [O] error in tableformula or bug

2011-03-24 Thread Nick Dokos
Carsten Dominik wrote: > > On 24.3.2011, at 10:46, Martin Halder wrote: > > > Hi again, > > > > have traced it down to the following commit which introduces the problem > > (thanks to bisect): > > [3dd474575205d3808390fc6ea2d5feccdb3d4305] Tables: Make @< and $< point to > > row/column 1 in

Re: [O] error in tableformula or bug

2011-03-24 Thread Nick Dokos
Nick Dokos wrote: > > @>-1 was allowed only for a short time, this format is flawed. > > Please use @>> instead to mean the second to last row. > > > > I think he wants the penultimate line, not the second line. > ... and I see that's what you said and I misread it: sorry for the noise. Nick

[O] Org-capture does not work with "long" extracts of text

2011-03-24 Thread Sébastien Vauban
Hi, I'm using for months Org-capture, with a lot of interest. In the beginning, it was on Firefox/Ubuntu, now it is (for external reasons) on Firefox/Windows XP. I think I can relate the limitation I'll expose with the switch from Linux to Windows. However, that does not necessarily mean that Win

Re: [O] Bug: Recurring items NEVER show up in timeline unaccompanied

2011-03-24 Thread Mark S
Hello Carsten et al, --- On Thu, 3/24/11, Carsten Dominik wrote: 1. Be satisfied with the way things are, just realize that repeaters only show up on the first date when the event happens for the first time. This would mean that you could never *trust* the timeline when dealing with ev

[O] orgmode BEAMER scaling image

2011-03-24 Thread Gilberto
In his org-mode beamer tutorial, Eric Fraga (very useful tutorial BTW, thanks) gives an example of using an image, and writes > I have added an attribute to the image to tell LaTeX to scale the image to > the full width of the column. Can I add a similar attribute to my images without having t

Re: [O] advice: how to export a list without exporting all entries

2011-03-24 Thread Carsten Dominik
On 21.3.2011, at 10:16, Eric S Fraga wrote: > Hi, > > I chair a particular committee at work and am responsible for keeping > track of any actions that arise from our meetings. I use org for this > (obviously ;-). So far, so good. > > I would like to move to a system in which all the actions

Re: [O] orgmode BEAMER scaling image

2011-03-24 Thread John Hendy
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Gilberto wrote: > In his org-mode beamer tutorial, Eric Fraga (very useful tutorial BTW, > thanks) gives an example of using an image, and writes > > I have added an attribute to the image to tell LaTeX to scale the image to > the full width of the column. > > Can

Re: [O] Specifying \institute[short]{long] in Beamer presentations

2011-03-24 Thread PASZTOR Miklos
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 07:18:45PM -0400, Bernd Weiss wrote: > I am currently preparing a Beamer presentation and I would like to > include \institute[short]{long} into my org-file; This works for me: #+BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA: \institute{My insitute} Cheers, Miklós -- signature.asc Descriptio

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-24 Thread Achim Gratz
Bastien writes: > I fully agree with Nick and Thomas (and others who also agreed): Org's > export facilities need some real love and new export features need to be > introduced as complete and as consistent accross exporters as possible. > > I hope we'll make progress on this for 7.6. That would

Re: [O] org table calc and lisp for hh:mm timetable

2011-03-24 Thread Martin Halder
>> If we're not just looking for a neat workaround for some special cases >> anymore, but looking at making org-tables aware of time-like strings >> by default, a better strategy than to convert them into integers might >> be to translate them into Calc time format and back again. >> >> After a

Re: [O] Bug: Recurring items NEVER show up in timeline unaccompanied

2011-03-24 Thread Nick Dokos
Carsten Dominik wrote: > Dear all, > > Maybe I can add the following background information to Nick's > amazing analysis. I wouldn't call it "amazing", but thanks for the kind words! > > - The timeline was the first agenda-like view I implemented, > it used to be (many years ago) the only w

Re: [O] advice: how to export a list without exporting all entries

2011-03-24 Thread Eric S Fraga
Carsten Dominik writes: [...] > > Hi Eric, > > I guess you could use one of the export hooks to clean up your > exported file when you are done. However, the problem will always > be that if you take a list environment, the numbering of the list > items will change when you take out items. An

Re: [O] orgmode BEAMER scaling image

2011-03-24 Thread Eric S Fraga
Gilberto writes: > In his org-mode beamer tutorial, Eric Fraga (very useful tutorial BTW, > thanks) gives an example of using an image, and writes You're very welcome! > >> I have added an attribute to the image to tell LaTeX to scale the >> image to the full width of the column. > > > Can I ad

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-24 Thread Nick Dokos
Bastien wrote: > Here is a list of difficulties: > > 1. the syntax of the backends vary, and this means that all Org options >are not meaningful in all target formats; > >*Example*: #+XSLT is only meaninful for the Docbook export. The >variable `org-export-html-postamble' is only m

[O] Re: s-tab not working as intended in kde's konsole

2011-03-24 Thread Achim Gratz
Izzie writes: > Wow! You just opened me to a whole new world of possibilities in advanced > window management I didn't suspect existed. Actually that's one of the reasons I still stick with KDE... indispensable when you have to work remotely and the other end beams a complete desktop over. Anot

Re: [O] Re: Completing with anything

2011-03-24 Thread Cian
Can you separate out the gnus specific code at some point. If I ever get any time (two small children and a day job, so big if) I'd like to integrate it into Wanderlust. But currently the code assumes that you're using gnus. On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Julien Danjou wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23 2

[O] org-remember and lists

2011-03-24 Thread Radosław Grzanka
Hello, I'm trying to tweak remember templates to follow my needs but I fail. I want to do template for my shopping list entries like this: (setq org-remember-templates (list (list "shopping" ?s "- [ ] %?\n" (concat org-directory "notes.org") "Shopping List") )) H

Re: [O] advice: how to export a list without exporting all entries

2011-03-24 Thread Eric S Fraga
Carsten, one question about your workflow. I've actually implemented much of what you have suggested but I am having one problem: Carsten Dominik writes: [...] > 3. I am not using an ordered list for the action items. Instead, I >give them explicit numbers, in the sequence in which I am

Re: [O] Using org-mode for recipes (i.e. cooking)

2011-03-24 Thread Christian Moe
Hi, On 3/24/11 12:47 PM, Le Wang wrote: (...) > Is it possible to inline count-down timers in a cooking step? For > example "2. simmer sauce for 40 minutes on low heat. > ", so there is a button at the end of the line > that starts a count-down timer. > > Many timers from different steps can be

Re: [O] advice: how to export a list without exporting all entries

2011-03-24 Thread Carsten Dominik
On 24.3.2011, at 21:45, Eric S Fraga wrote: > Carsten, > > one question about your workflow. I've actually implemented much of > what you have suggested but I am having one problem: > > Carsten Dominik writes: > > [...] > >> 3. I am not using an ordered list for the action items. Instead,

Re: [O] [OT] Another way org-mode is different

2011-03-24 Thread John Hendy
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Jeff Horn wrote: > See http://cl.ly/5TwV. > > The relevant quote: > "There’s no perceived value in open source for mentoring, > facilitation, disciplining of unruly users, training of newcomers or > non-technical users, etc., which are needed to support both desig

Re: [O] orgmode BEAMER scaling image

2011-03-24 Thread Gilberto
It worked great. Thanks a lot!!! Gilberto On 3/24/2011 9:26 AM, John Hendy wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Gilberto wrote: In his org-mode beamer tutorial, Eric Fraga (very useful tutorial BTW, thanks) gives an example of using an image, and writes I have added an attribute to the im

Re: [O] Using org-mode for recipes (i.e. cooking)

2011-03-24 Thread Christian Moe
PS. Using Eric Schulte's new with-time macro (http://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.html#sec-1_2_6), part of the table formula in my above example can be written more compactly: $5 = '(if (string-match org-timer-re $3) (org-timer-secs-to-hms (- (org-timer-hms-to-secs $2) (org-timer-hms-to-secs $4)

[O] Re: "Tag hierarchy" idea

2011-03-24 Thread John Tait
Thanks Jambunathan K. Your concise summary is correct. As it stands, selective export from Orgmode is already excellent -- combining both #+EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS: and #+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: in various ways allows for very precise exporting; this is particularly apparent when dealing with tags at diff

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-24 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:25:02 -0400 Nick Dokos wrote: > > PS: Also note that I couldn't be as available as I wanted the 10 > > last days due to personal problems, but things look better now. > > > > I think I'm speaking for all of us: Nothing here is so urgent that it > cannot wait for a few d

[O] Extracting pdf metadata

2011-03-24 Thread Marvin Doyley
Hi there, Does anybody have a lisp code that can extract metadata from pdf. There is an interesting program called sciplpore ( http://www.sciplore.org/software/sciplore_mindmapping/ that does this for freemind), it might be useful if were able to do the same with org (i.e., important pdf meta data

Re: [O] Extracting pdf metadata

2011-03-24 Thread John Hendy
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Marvin Doyley wrote: > Hi there, > > Does anybody have a lisp code that can extract metadata from pdf. There is > an interesting program called sciplpore > (http://www.sciplore.org/software/sciplore_mindmapping/ that does this for > freemind), it might be useful if

[O] [Babel] How to find out export format in a babel plugin

2011-03-24 Thread Jianing Yang
Hi, all I've recently written a babel plugin which does syntax highlighting using pygment. However, I have to specify a '-f html' option every time I use it. It looks like #+begin_src pygment :cmdline -l bash -O linenos -f html exec 3<&0 # copies STDIN, it prevents 'read' stealing STDIN from '$c

Re: [O] [Babel] How to find out export format in a babel plugin

2011-03-24 Thread Erik Iverson
On 03/24/2011 10:09 PM, Jianing Yang wrote: Hi, all I've recently written a babel plugin which does syntax highlighting using pygment. However, I have to specify a '-f html' option every time I use it. It looks like #+begin_src pygment :cmdline -l bash -O linenos -f html exec 3<&0 # copies STD

[O] Bug: Jumping to date in block agenda loses agenda view [7.5 (release_7.5.113.g9010a)]

2011-03-24 Thread Bernt Hansen
Hi, I'm finally getting around to trying block agendas and I've replaced most of my custom agenda commands with a single block view. Below is a simplified block agenda view which demonstrates the problem. I can move forwards and backwards one day at a time with 'f' and 'b' and it works great. I

[O] Re: [Orgmode] Daily Debian Builds

2011-03-24 Thread Puneeth Chaganti
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > suvayu ali writes: > >> I wanted to try it on Ubuntu Lucid but launchpad says failed build for >> the 26th of July. > > There is still a Lucid build available: > >    https://code.launchpad.net/~org-mode/+archive/daily-ppa > > I'm a

[O] Bug: Block agenda with tag limited clock report adds all tasks [7.5 (release_7.5.113.g9010a)]

2011-03-24 Thread Bernt Hansen
Hi, Here's another problem I noticed with block agendas and tag limited clock reports. This is the same setup as the previous report. Generating a clock report including all of the clock times for today works great. When I try to show a clock report limited to the current tag filter with C-u R

[O] A little bug of Org capture?

2011-03-24 Thread Chao LU
Dear all, Don't know if it is a little bug: For org capture template, if I set an template like this: ("i" "INBOX" entry (file+olp (concat org-private-dir "/iPrv.org") "INBOX" "test") "* %?" :prepend t) And for the iPrv.org, I have this structure: * INBOX ** test Then it works. But if the firs