Re: [Orgmode] Business process diagrams in org-mode

2010-11-16 Thread Eric S Fraga
"Thomas S. Dye" writes: [...] > Hi Eric, > > Neat! This gets rid of the #+begin_example ... #+end_example for me: > > #+call: esf/business-process[:results value raw](table=processtable, > file="business.pdf", name="process") :results value raw > > All the best, > Tom > Thanks. Trying with [

Re: [Orgmode] Business process diagrams in org-mode

2010-11-16 Thread Thomas S. Dye
On Nov 16, 2010, at 6:35 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: Bart Bunting writes: Hi Eric, Thanks very much for the suggestion! I'm not familiar with dot but will invest some time to see if I can get my head around it. This sounds like a good solution. Perhaps just writing directly in dot will

Re: [Orgmode] Business process diagrams in org-mode

2010-11-16 Thread Eric S Fraga
Bart Bunting writes: > Hi Eric, > > Thanks very much for the suggestion! > > I'm not familiar with dot but will invest some time to see if I can get > my head around it. > > This sounds like a good solution. Perhaps just writing directly in dot > will solve my problem. Possibly, although as i

Re: [Orgmode] Business process diagrams in org-mode

2010-11-15 Thread Bart Bunting
Hi Eric, Thanks very much for the suggestion! I'm not familiar with dot but will invest some time to see if I can get my head around it. This sounds like a good solution. Perhaps just writing directly in dot will solve my problem. Cheers Bart On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:25:12 +, Eric S Fr

Re: [Orgmode] Business process diagrams in org-mode

2010-11-15 Thread Eric S Fraga
Bart Bunting writes: > 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 h

Re: [Orgmode] Business process diagrams in org-mode

2010-11-13 Thread John Hendy
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote: > Aloha Bart, > > > This is certainly possible. Eric Fraga has generated GANTT charts from an > Org-mode table. His approach uses an emacs-lisp helper function to convert > the table to tikz code, and also a LaTeX stylesheet to define some

Re: [Orgmode] Business process diagrams in org-mode

2010-11-13 Thread John Hendy
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 be

Re: [Orgmode] Business process diagrams in org-mode

2010-11-13 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Aloha Bart, On Nov 13, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Bart Bunting 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 an

[Orgmode] Business process diagrams in org-mode

2010-11-13 Thread Bart Bunting
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 con