Re: [O] org-cook

2014-03-17 Thread Fletcher Charest
Hello everyone, Since we are on this subject, are you aware of any package that would make an 'automatic' shopping list based on recipes? My idea was to record recipes in this format: * Name of the recipe :tag: 1) Step one. 2) Step two. 3) Step three. :PROPERTIES: :ingredient_1:

Re: [O] org-cook

2014-03-17 Thread Xebar Saram
thank you all for the great answers Fletcher, your idea sounds great, but why not use org tables as people suggested for ingredients. ive started using it yesterday and im very pleased, in example: *** COOK Pancakes:American: :PROPERTIES: :Source: TV :Serves: :Time:

Re: [O] org-cook

2014-03-17 Thread Fletcher Charest
That would be better yes, but it looked easier (to me and my limited skills) to access properties through Emacs Lisp than accessing tables. Org experts might have some useful tips. FC On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Xebar Saram zelt...@gmail.com wrote: thank you all for the great answers

Re: [O] org-cook

2014-03-17 Thread Ken Mankoff
Hi, This isn't directly related to Org, but I'll mention it anyway since people are discussing quantities and scale for their recipes. Various programming languages have physical units packages that can make working with units quite fun. I use the python Quantities package

Re: [O] org-cook

2014-03-17 Thread Erik Hetzner
At Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:34:55 -0400, Ken Mankoff wrote: Hi, This isn't directly related to Org, but I'll mention it anyway since people are discussing quantities and scale for their recipes. Various programming languages have physical units packages that can make working with units quite

Re: [O] org-cook

2014-03-15 Thread Erik Hetzner
At Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:24:23 +0200, Xebar Saram wrote: Dear Eric and org users i am a new(ish) org user and an avid cooker. i have started using orgmodeas my recipe notebook and stumbled upon the old org-cook thread. Is there so documentation on this? do you still use it? are there any

Re: [O] org-cook

2014-03-15 Thread Xebar Saram
Thanks so much for the tips Erik i will explore the ingredients in table idea as suggested. do you know perhaps of a way to quick format online recipes to an org table (that is webpage html to org table) or perhaps a way to convert already entered recipes in my org files to tables kind regards

Re: [O] org-cook

2014-03-15 Thread Erik Hetzner
At Sat, 15 Mar 2014 20:03:33 +0200, Xebar Saram wrote: Thanks so much for the tips Erik i will explore the ingredients in table idea as suggested. do you know perhaps of a way to quick format online recipes to an org table (that is webpage html to org table) or perhaps a way to convert

Re: [O] org-cook

2014-03-15 Thread Alan Tyree
Pandoc can pull a web page, convert to Markdown and then to Org. That doesn't do all you want, but maybe a start. Cheers, Alan On 16 March 2014 05:03, Xebar Saram zelt...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks so much for the tips Erik i will explore the ingredients in table idea as suggested. do you know

Re: [O] org-cook

2014-03-15 Thread Robert Horn
I also use tables, and have one big recipe.org file. I considered ingredient properties, etc., but ended up just text and find recipes by using simple searches. They look like this: * Texas Skillet Corn Bread | Ingredient | Quantity | Instructions|