Re: [O] Vertical space

2016-03-04 Thread Johann Spies
On 4 March 2016 at 16:25, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > > > > Why not use the enumitem package to add that space automatically? > > > Thanks Marcin. I did not know about enumitem. That might be useful in LaTeX. But my problem here is not LaTeX, but how to do it using orgmode and

[O] Vertical space

2016-03-04 Thread Johann Spies
I am normally working in LaTeX but want to try out org-mode for a book. During the process I have to export Word Processing documents (LibreOffice/MS Word) for other less privileged people who do not know Linux/Emacs/LaTeX :) My first problem is how to do this (\vspace{}) in orgmode (Know I how

Re: [O] Archiving?

2016-02-11 Thread Johann Spies
On 9 February 2016 at 18:28, Kyle Meyer wrote: > > > > I'm guessing that you have an Emacs version < 25 and have a mixed > installation issue. If you're installing from ELPA, please uninstall > and then, before the builtin version of Org is loaded, reinstall. > Thanks Kyle,

[O] Archiving?

2016-02-09 Thread Johann Spies
I cannot get archiving to work as expected. Example: With the cursor on * DONE Werk aan die normalisering van skrywers CLOSED: [2015-10-13 Di 07:50] :PROPERTIES: :ID: d48a7607-0a66-42a6-8819-b98be5f612aa :END: and #+ARCHIVE: %s_done:: in the file Then I did C-c $ As a result,

Re: [O] what is atril?

2015-12-07 Thread Johann Spies
> What is atril Atril is my preferred pdf-reader on Debian. I think it comes with the mate-desktop-environment. Regards Johann -- Because experiencing your loyal love is better than life itself, my lips will praise you. (Psalm 63:3)

Re: [O] plantuml: Terminal 0 is locked

2015-12-03 Thread Johann Spies
Sorry for the noise, plantuml.jar was not in the correct place. Regards Johann On 3 December 2015 at 14:22, Johann Spies <johann.sp...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I evaluate this: > > @startuml > Alice -> Bob: Authentication Request > Bob --> Alice: Authenticatio

[O] plantuml: Terminal 0 is locked

2015-12-03 Thread Johann Spies
When I evaluate this: @startuml Alice -> Bob: Authentication Request Bob --> Alice: Authentication Response Alice -> Bob: Another authentication Request Alice <-- Bob: another authentication Response @enduml I get an error message: Terminal 0 is locked, cannot read from it What is causing

Re: [O] sh - script: how to control the output.

2015-11-02 Thread Johann Spies
> > You could try out some of the options for the ":results" header > argument, as described here: > > http://orgmode.org/manual/results.html#results > > > Thanks Myles. After a bit of experimenting I got this to work (I have to remove the *example* lines to make a table of the output. But that

[O] sh - script: how to control the output.

2015-11-01 Thread Johann Spies
In the normal shell, I can do: echo '\d wos.wos_papers_by_subject_mv' | psql -h localhost -p 63334 book_citation | grep '[+|]' and get the output: Column | Type | Modifiers --+-+--- id | integer | subject | citext | articles | bigint | When I try this

Re: [O] Orgmode on Android.

2014-06-17 Thread Johann Spies
On 11 Jun 2014 1:57 PM, Johann Spies wrote: I will document my steps tonight an post it. Apologies for not doing that. I discovered what my problem was: I did not see the tickbox in the Android App's setup wizard next to the directory. I only noticed tonight (after many tries) a tickbox

Re: [O] Orgmode on Android.

2014-06-11 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo John, On 10 June 2014 23:27, John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com wrote: More information would be helpful. There is a setup procedure from the Emacs/Org side, and also from the Mobile-Org side. What, for example, did you do for the steps described here? -

[O] Orgmode on Android.

2014-06-10 Thread Johann Spies
I am for the first time trying to install MobileOrg on an Android device but I have no luck syncing from Dropbox. The wizard takes met to Dropbox/Apps/MobileOrg/ where index.org is. And then nothing happens further. If I select that directory it just shows the subdirectory orgmode. Also

Re: [O] Exporting Agenda

2013-12-22 Thread Johann Spies
On 21 December 2013 09:58, Bastien b...@altern.org wrote: Hi Johann, Johann Spies johann.sp...@gmail.com writes: On 19/12/2013 22:45, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: You may need to tweak `org-icalendar-use-scheduled' (for VEVENT) and `org-icalendar-include-todo' (for VTODO). Thanks. I

Re: [O] Exporting Agenda

2013-12-20 Thread Johann Spies
On 19/12/2013 22:45, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: You may need to tweak `org-icalendar-use-scheduled' (for VEVENT) and `org-icalendar-include-todo' (for VTODO). Thanks. I have search a little bit on how to do this and found something that works for me. Regards Johann -- J.H. Spies - Tel. 021-982

Re: [O] Exporting Agenda

2013-12-19 Thread Johann Spies
I upgraded to org-mode 8.4 and now pdf (ps) is working but the result for ics is the same: a skeleton file. Regards Johann On 19 December 2013 09:09, Johann Spies johann.sp...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to export the agenda and so far I can only export to html. The other formats (ps, pdf

Re: [O] Exporting Agenda

2013-12-19 Thread Johann Spies
Hello Bastien, Thanks for your attention. Can you tell us how do you export? Through C-c C-e ? No. If I try that, it is not recognised as a valid combination. I use C-x C-w when in agenda mode. Also, please provide a minimal test file with a reproducible recipe, this will help solve

[O] Exporting Agenda

2013-12-18 Thread Johann Spies
I am trying to export the agenda and so far I can only export to html. The other formats (ps, pdf and ics) fail. Exports to ics ends up in an empty ics-file like this: BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:OrgMode PRODID:-//Johann Spies//Emacs with Org mode//EN X-WR-TIMEZONE:SAST X-WR

Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file

2013-12-06 Thread Johann Spies
Johann Spies wrote: Thanks for sharing this. However, after adding this to my ~/.emacs I do not see anything appearing in my .emacs.d/backup directory. #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq make-backup-files t) (setq backup-directory-alist '((/home/js/* . /home/js/.emacs.d/backup))) (setq

Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file

2013-12-03 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks for sharing this. However, after adding this to my ~/.emacs I do not see anything appearing in my .emacs.d/backup directory. #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq make-backup-files t) (setq backup-directory-alist '((/home/js/* . /home/js/.emacs.d/backup))) (setq backup-by-copying t ;

Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file

2013-12-03 Thread Johann Spies
Hello Alexander, Thanks for your attention. that is strange. I cannot remember doing something else besides putting the mentioned code into my init file. I can only think of these trivial reason why this does not work for you: - Did you evaluate the code or restarted your emacs? Yes, I

Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file (solved backups)

2013-12-03 Thread Johann Spies
After reading a little bit about emacs backup functions I experimented with customising emacs using the 'options' menu and succeeded in getting the type of backups you were talking about. It looks similar to yours (I even tried a version from the emacs backup-wiki without success) and I don't