On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: >>> John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >> >>> [...] >>> >>>> In any case, it looks like *just* after this discussion, something a >>>> bit more formal came about for gantt charts and TikZ. I thought you >>>> and others might be interested in it: >>>> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gantt-tikz >>>> >>>> It looks like a summary/walkthrough of this package: >>>> http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex_gantt_package.php >>> >>> Many thanks for bringing this to our attention. It looks very good and >>> definitely much cleaner and prettier than my little hack job! >>> >>> It should be fairly straightforward to modify my org table to gantt >>> chart code to work with this package. I'll add this to my list of jobs >>> to do "when I have the time" or "when I next need this functionality", >>> whichever comes soonest ;-) >>> >> >> One thing to note is that this is using ConTeXt, not [La]Tex. I had >> actually never heard of it before and there were some notable >> differences between the file structure, particularly the preamble. Let >> me know what you think when you dig into that and if org can manage. >> Bummer the package wasn't for straight LaTeX! >> >> >> John > > Ah but the [[http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex/gantt.sty][original]], linked > to from the site above, *is* for LaTeX and has the same functionality, I > believe? It's the one I would use in any case.
Oh wow. I totally missed that that they were not the same. I thought one was the package and the other a wiki on how to use it. Missed that the ConTeXt one was a port of the original! Cool deal! John > -- > : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 > : using Org-mode version 7.7 (release_7.7.222.gd7757) >