Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Apr 2, 2007, at 16:06, Tim O'Callaghan wrote:
>> What about adding the generated searches as a publishable source?
>> possibly by adding to
>> org-agenda-custom-commands.
>
> Would htmlize be enough to publish this, or do people have more fancy
> ideas about how this should work?
I'm a bit of mixed minds on this topic.
Unrealistic wishful thinking that I should implement my damn-self:
Tag searches are always contexts for me. If I want to export the
results of a tag search, it's probably because I want to print a
context that is not @Computer and put it in my planner. The
output ought to be something that eventually yields a PDF file
that looks like a DIY Planner (http://www.diyplanner.com/) context
page.
Likewise, daily/weekly agenda views ought to yield DIY Planner-ish
calendar pages.
This is a totally non-serious proposal, because I expect anyone to
have completely different preferences for from me, and it's not
worth anyone else's time to implement exactly what I want :)
Totally realistic, requires little work for anyone:
Provide a utility function for calling htmlize on the agenda
buffer and saving the results; doesn't need to be more integrated
than that. You can then generate somewhat naff PDFs which are at
least the right paper size and so forth by printing from a web
browser.
Alternative idea:
Many people seem to be using scripts (orgna.pl, for example) to do
this kind of thing, which seems to be perfectly reasonable. Maybe
a good idea would be to make it easier for scripts by letting
org-mode handle the logic of selecting things, then just feeding
the data to the script in a sensible format?
org-batch-agenda /very nearly/ does this. I think it could be
improved as an adjunct to external script-writing by providing two
things:
1. An unambiguously parseable output format with some semantic
content. An XML microformat would do dandy for this, but
something like adequately-escaped comma-separated text with
defined columns for category, status, title, and tags would
also do well enough.
2. Support for arbitrary tag/keyword searches, though continued
support for cmd-keys from org-agenda-custom-commands would
still be conveient.
Anyone else's thoughts?
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