Re: Manual suggestion and experience report from a new user (citation processors, 9.5)

2021-10-13 Thread Peter Neilson
On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 11:33:16 -0400, Leszek Wroński wrote: Guys, I've been using Emacs for about 20 years, but I'm only now starting to seriously explore the Org-mode, since I read about the new citation options. I'd like to report my initial experience since maybe this could lead to some ame

Re: how to export to odt with 11 or 10 pt fonts? Default font setting

2021-10-07 Thread Peter Neilson
On Thu, 07 Oct 2021 08:28:03 -0400, Uwe Brauer wrote: "JMM" == Juan Manuel Macías writes: Uwe Brauer writes: I searched about google, but it seems that the only way to have a 10 or 11 pt font size is, again, by using styles. Am I right? Yes, you are right. Word processors handle paragra

Re: Deleting (not archiving) TODO items when done

2021-08-04 Thread Peter Neilson
On Wed, 04 Aug 2021 13:47:11 -0400, William Denton wrote: When I've marked a TODO item as DONE and want to get it out of my projects list, I've always used C-c C-x C-a (org-archive-subtree-default) to get it out of the way. Today I had to go through the archive file to find an old note abo

Re: convert a org table to plain text

2020-08-25 Thread Peter Neilson
On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:44:30 -0400, Uwe Brauer wrote: Hi What is the inverse function to org-table-convert-region? I am unable to find anything in the documentation or google. Regards We Brauer I tried M-x table-release as suggested by the documentation and did not get anything.

Re: bi-monthly steps.

2020-03-13 Thread Peter Neilson
On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 04:01:43 -0400, Michal Politowski wrote: Fortnightly :) Such a useful word. There are 24 semi-months in a year. There are roughly 26 fortnights. American English seem to allow the adverb semimonthly but generally avoids the British term fortnightly. There ought to be

Re: bi-monthly steps.

2020-03-12 Thread Peter Neilson
On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:15:04 -0400, Nick Dokos wrote: "Bi-monthly" is ambiguous: it can mean twice a month or it can mean once every two months and there is no convincing anybody that their use of it is wrong :-) Exactly true. "Bi-weekly" is nearly as ambiguous, but is rescued by an ensuing

[O] Help? Orgzly check list boxes too small.

2019-05-02 Thread Peter Neilson
I've been using Orgzly and have been pleased with it, but I find the tiny checkboxes too small for my fumble fingers on my Pixel phone. I've not found any way to expandify the view. Am I overlooking some existing feature?

Re: [O] An Org-based productivity tool

2018-10-11 Thread Peter Neilson
On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:03:15 -0400, Bingo wrote: Le 10 octobre 2018 21:45:53 GMT+05:30, Marcin Borkowski a écrit : - a warning when my efficiency is lower than a set value, and info about how much work I need to do to bump it up to that value. Nice, but it has an anti-feature. For pr

Re: [O] General advice beyond Org

2018-05-17 Thread Peter Neilson
On Thu, 17 May 2018 20:28:22 -0400, wrote: Hello, _I_ need help. I am in graduate school, and I keep having issues with my advisor for my strong inclination to use free software. I am obviously not in position to refuse, but she dislikes to have discussions about it. She pays a stipend t

Re: [O] does this pandoc error look familiar to anybody?

2018-03-19 Thread Peter Neilson
On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 08:30:13 -0400, Colin Baxter wrote: Adonay Felipe Nogueira writes: snip > Good academic and writting practice tells that headings shouldn't > be more than four levels deep. In LaTeX (which is used for PDF > export), and its d

Re: [O] Editing in two columns

2018-02-24 Thread Peter Neilson
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 19:01:25 -0500, Peter Davis wrote: Is there a way to edit with two columns displayed so I’m only editing and exporting the right hand column? I’m writing a parody of a poem, and I’d like to have the original in the left column for reference, to make sure the rhyme scheme, me

Re: [O] orgmode for many continuous tasks?

2017-09-27 Thread Peter Neilson
On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:02:26 -0400, Mycroft Jones wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 07:14:25PM +0300, Melleus wrote: That's true. But the clipboard can't beep when you might have forgotten about some important appointment when shearing a sheep, driving a tractor or doing other interesting thing

Re: [O] orgmode for many continuous tasks?

2017-09-25 Thread Peter Neilson
On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 03:21:51 -0400, Mycroft Jones wrote: I'm wondering if org-mode can do this: I have many tasks. Some are one off. But many are tasks that will take a period of time, days, weeks, months. I need to schedule a bit of time every day. Over time I can complete the tasks

Re: [O] Org-table alignment in Arabic

2017-08-13 Thread Peter Neilson
On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 07:16:26 -0400, wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I am new to this email list about org-mode, first of all thanks to all contributors of org-mode. I am here seeking your help considering org-table and Arabic text, the issue is described in this post of mine sometime ago: https://e

Re: [O] evil-mode and org

2017-03-29 Thread Peter Neilson
On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:12:22 -0400, John Kitchin wrote: Using evil-mode is not "using vim" IMHO. I think this is a question of do you want modal editing or not (I suppose it could also be do you want emacs-lisp or vimscript, but that is not the impression I get these days ;). With emacs you c

Re: [O] evil-mode and org

2017-03-28 Thread Peter Neilson
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 08:57:40 -0400, Matt Price wrote: I've never used Vim but I see a lot of people online raving about evil mode and how much they love it. I'm considering giving it a whirl after the semester ends & I get some free time. I just wondered whether any heavy org users here on

Re: [O] Timezones revisited

2017-02-01 Thread Peter Neilson
On Wed, 01 Feb 2017 10:50:24 -0500, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: Russell Adams writes: I understand that Org's timestamp format does not include timezone information. Making that change would be an impractical modification. I'm frequently working with several different timezones and I only need

Re: [O] Clocking work time vs. office time

2016-04-29 Thread Peter Neilson
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:08:38 -0400, Loris Bennett wrote: Eric S Fraga writes: On Friday, 29 Apr 2016 at 09:25, Marcin Borkowski wrote: However, this does not help with my main issue: tracking /time in office/. Not /time in office working/, mind you. I'd like to have a report like this (

Re: [O] exported table has text overflowing off the pdf page

2016-04-25 Thread Peter Neilson
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 08:18:09 -0400, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm running into problems exporting tables into latex with a 2-column 3-row table with a large amount of text to go into the cells, but when its exported the text is taking over and overflowing off the pdf page. How can I have the text

Re: [O] Stackoverflow in regexp matcher

2016-02-03 Thread Peter Neilson
On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 06:19:43 -0500, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: "Loris Bennett" writes: re-search-forward("^[^%]*usepackage.*{biblatex}" nil t) This is a pathological regexp. [^%] is anything but a percent sign, so it can contain newline characters. Basically [^%]* can match an entire b

Re: [O] Efficiency of Org v. LaTeX v. Word

2014-12-27 Thread Peter Neilson
On Fri, 26 Dec 2014 23:27:37 -0500, Nick Dokos wrote: Anyway, color me deeply suspicious of the "study". Indeed! The study touches only a few of the inherent difficulties in document production. Its major flaw is that it draws any conclusions at all recommending that authors produce docu

Re: [O] emacs24-starter-kit and Aquamacs 3.0

2014-05-15 Thread Peter Neilson
On Thu, 15 May 2014 10:28:13 -0400, Axel Kielhorn wrote: I should have asked earlier, but everyone was suggesting Aquamacs. Since I'm starting from scratch I don't mind switching and it will be easier to share my configuration with the Unix machine I sometimes telnet to. Yes. Because

Re: [O] Chaining strings between babel blocks: why so many '\'?

2014-03-26 Thread Peter Neilson
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:19:35 -0400, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: Hello, Alan Schmitt writes: I've been playing with block chaining to generate some dot file then to export then as images. I had a little trouble finding the number of '\' I need to put in front of a quote if I want the quote to b

Re: [O] Tasks with lots of logbook entries are very slow

2014-03-26 Thread Peter Neilson
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 04:10:02 -0400, Pere Quintana Seguí wrote: El 25/03/14 19:27, Marcin Borkowski ha escrit: Dnia 2014-03-25, o godz. 16:00:01 Pere Quintana Seguí napisał(a): I log most of my work with org-mode. Some of my tasks are repetitive, this is, I do them weekly or daily (i.e. em

Re: [O] Using Org-mode for mass-scheduling appointments

2014-03-15 Thread Peter Neilson
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:07:22 -0400, Marcin Borkowski wrote: Dnia 2014-01-22, o godz. 12:55:43 Marcin Borkowski napisał(a): Hi list, I have the following problem: I want to schedule quite a few short (10 minutes, say) appointments with my students ("mass" is probably an exaggeration, but t

Re: [O] org todos on paper?

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Neilson
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 05:44:52 -0500, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: Its just a matter of time and the machine you use for shearing sheeps will be a kind of smart-phone too that peeps if you need more than the SCHEDULED time for one sheep, or the time for ,- | "[#A] TOD

Re: [O] org todos on paper?

2014-02-27 Thread Peter Neilson
On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:23:26 -0500, Peter Salazar wrote: I keep meeting people who say they started getting more things done more efficiently once they started printing out their tasks lists, so they can have the experience of seeing the list on paper and, more importantly, the satisfactio

Re: [O] Org Tutorials need more structure

2013-09-30 Thread Peter Neilson
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:01:57 -0400, Eric S Fraga wrote: but I'm sure somebody else will think something is missing I'll admit that I've only dabbled in org mode thus far, but here's what I see as lacking in the tutorial documentation: 1. Non-video presentations for beginners. Some of us a

Re: [O] What is the URL of orgmode license evidence

2013-08-30 Thread Peter Neilson
On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:35:13 -0400, James Kang wrote: I know orgmode is under GPL but my search didn't turn up anything clear from orgmode.Org. I need this official information for an access. :-( Thanks Do these help? http://orgmode.org/manual/index.html#Top http://orgmode.org/w/?p=org-mode

Re: [O] Support for a and p suffix for morning/afternoon scheduling

2012-05-25 Thread Peter Neilson
On Fri, 25 May 2012 01:45:14 -0400, Tom wrote: I use the scheduling prompt very often and I usually give times in 8pm/9am/etc. format, because they are conveniently short to type. Today it occured to me the m is unnecessary, because a and p already gives the necessary info. Could we also supp