Re: [O] trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating

2013-10-23 Thread Xebar Saram
Thank you Eric and Rick! Eric: The #+OPTIONS: \n:nil didn't do much here even using the default templates for export as suggested Rick: i think i can live with the #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE blocks , is there a way to define wrapping text in the block? as you said using the block currently cuts off text

Re: [O] [BUG] Exporting to HTML a document with a #+CALL

2013-10-23 Thread Vladimir Lomov
Hello, ** Eric Schulte [2013-10-22 08:44:18 -0600]: This issue only manifests with the Emacs compiled from source, and as such I can not reproduce it. If this bug makes it into a released version of Emacs I can address it then. Until then perhaps this should be reported to the emacs-dev

[O] [RFC] defcustom sorting-type

2013-10-23 Thread Andreas Röhler
In docstring of `org-sort-entries' it's told The command prompts for the sorting type unless it has been given to the function through the SORTING-TYPE argument, which needs to be a character, \(?n ?N ?a ?A ?t ?T ?s ?S ?d ?D ?p ?P ?o ?O ?r ?R ?f ?F). Suggest to extend it somehow like that way

Re: [O] exclude certain tags from inheritance

2013-10-23 Thread David Belohrad
YS! This works as a charm. Many thanks guys. d. Nick Dokos ndo...@gmail.com writes: David Belohrad da...@belohrad.ch writes: Hi Christinan, thanks for hint. That one i've tested as first. doing (setq org-use-tag-inheritance ^[@#]) That should probably be (setq

Re: [O] trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating

2013-10-23 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Xebar Saram zelt...@gmail.com writes: Thank you Eric and Rick! Eric: The #+OPTIONS: \n:nil didn't do much here even using the default templates for export as suggested Sorry! Got it backwards -- it's meant to be \n:t But still, other responders are probably right that what you want is

Re: [O] [RFC] Change some defcustoms into defcont

2013-10-23 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Carsten Dominik drostekirs...@gmail.com writes: can you remind me what the bug was? The taskjuggler issue? Correct. I will fix it today. Yes, as I said, I do see all these problems, but I also feel the responsibility to break as few as possible existing configurations. I

[O] [PATCH] improve doc for org-use-speed-commands

2013-10-23 Thread Oleh
Hi all, I have my headings abbreviated to one star and often instead of executing org-speed-command, I get a letter inserted because the point isn't exactly at the beginning of line. Problem is solved by setting `org-use-speed-commands' to an appropriate lambda. I attach a patch to add this

Re: [O] odt export with 'header'

2013-10-23 Thread Christian Moe
Hi, Andreas, Did this work for you? I'll write it up on Worg if it seems useful. Yours, Christian Christian Moe writes: Hi, Andreas Leha writes: I'd like to have a 'header' on the first page of a odt exported document Here is a fiddly way to do it. (...) The trick is to put your header

[O] Symbol's function definition is void: org-export-dispatch; don't forget to make autoloads

2013-10-23 Thread George Jones
This may be obvious, but don't forget to do make autoloads after a git clone: http://orgmode.org/manual/Installation.html I was getting: Symbol's function definition is void: org-export-dispatch and wasted time trying to figure this out. This posting is to document it the mailing list so

[O] Problem with automatic recursive adding of org-agenda-files

2013-10-23 Thread Tor Eriksson
Hello all, I have searched the web without finding a solution to the following problem: I am using this snippet in my .emacs.d (using emacs starterkit) to dynamically and recursively load all org files in the directory important-directory and any subdirectory of this directory: (load-library

Re: [O] Problem with automatic recursive adding of org-agenda-files

2013-10-23 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Tor Eriksson teriksson2...@gmail.com writes: Hello all, I have searched the web without finding a solution to the following problem: I am using this snippet in my .emacs.d (using emacs starterkit) to dynamically and recursively load all org files in the directory important-directory and

Re: [O] Babel issue after upgrade to Org 8?

2013-10-23 Thread Rasmus
SabreWolfy sabrewolfy at gmail.com writes: I've recently updated my Debian unstable installation and Emacs now reports this on startup: Symbol's function definition is void: org-babel-do-load-language My .emacs includes: (org-babel-do-load-languages 'org-babel-load-languages '((R .

[O] broken names

2013-10-23 Thread Andreas Röhler
Hi all, as I have to deal with different Emacs versions, notice several name-changes, which break my code. Are you sure `org-forward-same-level' needed be renamed `org-forward-heading-same-level' for example? Please stay as conservative as possible WRT to this, please consider providing an

[O] org-mode and long lines alerting

2013-10-23 Thread Adam Spiers
Hi all, I recently configured my emacs with visual alerts for lines longer than (say) 80 columns. I used two mechanisms for this: 1. the built-in `whitespace-mode', with `whitespace-style' including the 'lines-tail symbol 2. the fill-column-indicator package, which draws a vertical

Re: [O] odt export with 'header'

2013-10-23 Thread Andreas Leha
Hi Christian, thanks a lot for this. It was definitely helpful. Sorry, I did not get back to this earlier. I do have some issues with this, still -- see my inline comments below. Christian Moe m...@christianmoe.com writes: Hi, Andreas Leha writes: I'd like to have a 'header' on the

Re: [O] odt export with 'header'

2013-10-23 Thread Andreas Leha
Hi Christian, Christian Moe m...@christianmoe.com writes: Hi, Andreas, Did this work for you? I'll write it up on Worg if it seems useful. It is definitely useful and I think it should be documented somewhere. Very nicely written as well. Worg seems appropriate. I guess other people will

Re: [O] trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating

2013-10-23 Thread Xebar Saram
Thx again Eric i actually like using the example block but as you mentioned i think the text is cut at the end when you export it , is there anyway to make the exporter auto wrap lines inside example blocks? best z On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Eric Abrahamsen

Re: [O] Problem with automatic recursive adding of org-agenda-files

2013-10-23 Thread Nick Dokos
Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: Tor Eriksson teriksson2...@gmail.com writes: Hello all, I have searched the web without finding a solution to the following problem: I am using this snippet in my .emacs.d (using emacs starterkit) to dynamically and recursively load all org

[O] underscore escaping

2013-10-23 Thread Andreas Leha
Hi all, do I miss something wrt underscore escaping? According to the manual [fn:1] I expect to see underscores in the exported (to LaTeX) version of this test file: --8---cut here---start-8--- * Underscore\_Escaping_Test Underscore\_Escaping_Test

Re: [O] odt export with 'header'

2013-10-23 Thread Christian Moe
Andreas Leha writes: 3. Give the first page the page style OrgFirstPage. Which I had to create new. Is that intended? No, I get that out of the box on a clean system, so I think you should see it too. (Along with OrgTitlePage, which is the style I actually used for testing, and

[O] [BUG] mention org-after-sorting-entries-or-items-hook

2013-10-23 Thread Andreas Röhler
`org-sort-entries' calls a useful hook `org-after-sorting-entries-or-items-hook', which isn't mentioned in docstring. BTW using this to restore empty lines swallowed by sort. Thanks all, Andreas

Re: [O] [RFC] Change some defcustoms into defcont

2013-10-23 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi Nicolas, and everyone else. I have just investigated what actually happens is someone has a customize setting for a variable in his/her setup, and then the variable is changed to a defconst behind his/her back. The result was very surprising to me: customize-set-variables still does set the

[O] RLT (hebrew) tables and org-odt-export-to-odt problems

2013-10-23 Thread Uwe Brauer
Hello Please consider the following example of a hebrew text, which is written in logical form. פרויקט לשמור מגדל פיזה שעלה 20 מיליון אירו השלים לאחרונה. When exported to odt, the first sentence is displayed correctly. However when I try to put it in a table as the

[O] Repeating the customization survey?

2013-10-23 Thread Carsten Dominik
Dear all, in 2009, we ran a customization survey, to figure out which variables are actually used by active Org-mode users. The results can be seen here: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-configs/org-customization-survey.html I was wondering if it would be useful to repeats this - the

Re: [O] Custom forwarding for a scheduled task

2013-10-23 Thread Fletcher Charest
Dear Sébastien, Thank you for your answer, it is useful. Now I can see that I already worked on a task even if I reschedule it and don't see the Sched. 2x mention. But I still have to manually reschedule the task to the next week, which is what I *really* want to avoid, even at the price of not

Re: [O] trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating

2013-10-23 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Xebar Saram zelt...@gmail.com writes: Thx again Eric i actually like using the example block but as you mentioned i think the text is cut at the end when you export it , is there anyway to make the exporter auto wrap lines inside example blocks? I don't think it's cut, is it? I just tried

Re: [O] [BUG] Exporting to HTML a document with a #+CALL

2013-10-23 Thread Vladimir Lomov
Hello, ** Eric Schulte [2013-10-22 08:44:18 -0600]: This issue only manifests with the Emacs compiled from source, and as such I can not reproduce it. If this bug makes it into a released version of Emacs I can address it then. Until then perhaps this should be reported to the emacs-dev

Re: [O] make new links show as figures?

2013-10-23 Thread Rick Frankel
On 2013-10-22 21:53, John Kitchin wrote: Is it possible to define new links that would be rendered as inline images? I am imagining something like chemdraw:benzene.png which would show the benzene.png file inline, but when I click on it would open a chemdraw file for editing.

Re: [O] odt export with 'header'

2013-10-23 Thread Andreas Leha
Christian Moe m...@christianmoe.com writes: Andreas Leha writes: 3. Give the first page the page style OrgFirstPage. Which I had to create new. Is that intended? No, I get that out of the box on a clean system, so I think you should see it too. (Along with OrgTitlePage, which is the

[O] manual linebreaks in odt

2013-10-23 Thread Andreas Leha
Hi all, the odt exporter introduces a spurious [space] at the beginning of the new line after a manual line break enforced by '\\'. According to the manual [fn:1] '\\' is the intended syntax for linebreaks. Thus, this seems to be a bug in the odt exporter. Here is a MWE: --8---cut

Re: [O] trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating

2013-10-23 Thread Glyn Millington
Xebar Saram zelt...@gmail.com writes: Thx again Eric i actually like using the example block but as you mentioned i think the text is cut at the end when you export it , is there anyway to make the exporter auto wrap lines inside example blocks? Hi Xebar, This does seem to be getting

Re: [O] Help on spreadsheet/calc references and improvements

2013-10-23 Thread Michael Brand
Hi Carsten, Bastien and Nicolas On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Michael Brand michael.ch.br...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Michael Brand michael.ch.br...@gmail.com wrote: @maintainers: According to the below I tried to improve the Org manual with the attached patch,

Re: [O] Problem with automatic recursive adding of org-agenda-files

2013-10-23 Thread Nicolas Richard
Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: FWIW, I don't even have a `find-lisp-find-files' function in my installation (GNU Emacs 24.3.1). Even if you eval (load-library find-lisp) ? It's built-in for me on GNU Emacs 24.3.1 too. -- Nico.

Re: [O] manual linebreaks in odt

2013-10-23 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Andreas Leha andreas.l...@med.uni-goettingen.de writes: Here is a MWE: * Test line breaks in odt exports Here is a manual\\ linebreak. This is not a line break. In Org \\ string has to appear at the end of line. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou

Re: [O] underscore escaping

2013-10-23 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Andreas Leha andreas.l...@med.uni-goettingen.de writes: According to the manual [fn:1] I expect to see underscores in the exported (to LaTeX) version of this test file: * Underscore\_Escaping_Test Underscore\_Escaping_Test At the moment, there is no support for escaped characters

Re: [O] Beamer export: How to handle overlayarea

2013-10-23 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: Under Block environments and overlay specifications, where it discusses custom environments, I would add: ~~ - Environment options may be given using the BEAMER_opt property. They will be enclosed in square brackets and inserted where %o

[O] [PATCH] Re: manual linebreaks in odt

2013-10-23 Thread Christian Moe
Hi, Nicolas, Andreas did put the \\ at the end, but the line must have got wrapped in your email client. I confirm the behavior Andreas reported -- spaces are being needlessly added after forced line breaks in ODT export. A couple of redundant newlines in ox-odt.el seem to be at fault, so I

Re: [O] [PATCH] Re: manual linebreaks in odt

2013-10-23 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Christian Moe m...@christianmoe.com writes: Nicolas, Andreas did put the \\ at the end, but the line must have got wrapped in your email client. You're right. For some reason, Gnus sometimes eats newline characters within scissors markup. I confirm the behavior Andreas reported --

Re: [O] Drag images from Firefox to org-mode

2013-10-23 Thread Rick Frankel
On 2013-10-20 16:42, Nicolas Richard wrote: Oleh ohwoeo...@gmail.com writes: This can be fixed with a platform-aware function that checks both the clipboard and the cut-buffer. I suggest to ask for a string with (read-string URL: nil nil default), offering the content of the clipboard/kill

Re: [O] [RFC] Do not declare drawers to use them

2013-10-23 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de writes: I suggest that completion should still look at configured drawer names. Since the patch removes DRAWER keyword, there is no place left to configure drawer names. Using DRAWER keyword only for completion would be confusing, because it would then

Re: [O] trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating

2013-10-23 Thread Xebar Saram
Thanks again guys Rick: But a better approach would be to define your own latex list environment for program steps and use lists: ive never used latex, do you mind expanding on that a bit? Eric: I don't think it's cut, is it? I just tried with your example and long lines are preserved as-is

Re: [O] Drag images from Firefox to org-mode

2013-10-23 Thread Oleh
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Rick Frankel r...@rickster.com wrote: On 2013-10-20 16:42, Nicolas Richard wrote: Oleh ohwoeo...@gmail.com writes: This can be fixed with a platform-aware function that checks both the clipboard and the cut-buffer. I suggest to ask for a string with

[O] org-babel generated images and +ATTR_LATEX

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Edgington
Hello all, I have noticed that it seems not possible to evaluate a babel block of code which generates an image, and to have a #+ATTR_LATEX line exist which immediately precedes the generated link to the image. In other words, If there's already a #+ATTR_LATEX line, I need to move it after the

Re: [O] Drag images from Firefox to org-mode

2013-10-23 Thread Torsten Wagner
Hi, just wonder if we can drag-and-drop images into org-mode could we drag-and drop emails from e.g. thunderbird too. There is a plugin for thunderbird call thunderlink which allows to generate org-mode readable links. However, drag and drop an email in a browser gives a address which looks like:

Re: [O] Repeating the customization survey?

2013-10-23 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia 2013-10-23, o godz. 15:34:09 Carsten Dominik drostekirs...@gmail.com napisał(a): Dear all, in 2009, we ran a customization survey, to figure out which variables are actually used by active Org-mode users. The results can be seen here:

Re: [O] Repeating the customization survey?

2013-10-23 Thread Samuel Wales
Will this use a function that people can run on their files? It /was/ interesting and a good workout for Org. Samuel -- The Kafka Pandemic: http://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com The disease DOES progress. MANY people have died from it. ANYBODY can get it. Denmark: free Karina Hansen NOW.

Re: [O] Drag images from Firefox to org-mode

2013-10-23 Thread Torsten Wagner
Hi, I have to correct myself, I could use the link created by thunderbird drag and drop. I simply missed to put the link into quotes. This works, thunderbird will open the message in a new view. thunderbird -mails

Re: [O] org-babel generated images and +ATTR_LATEX

2013-10-23 Thread Michael Gauland
Mark, I think you want to use named results. My images typically look something like this: #+NAME: architecture #+HEADER: :exports results #+HEADER: :file (org-babel-temp-file ./figure- .eps) #+HEADER: :cache yes #+BEGIN_SRC plantuml ... #+END_SRC #+NAME: fig-architecture

Re: [O] underscore escaping

2013-10-23 Thread Andreas Leha
Hi Nicolas, Nicolas Goaziou n.goaz...@gmail.com writes: Hello, Andreas Leha andreas.l...@med.uni-goettingen.de writes: According to the manual [fn:1] I expect to see underscores in the exported (to LaTeX) version of this test file: * Underscore\_Escaping_Test Underscore\_Escaping_Test

Re: [O] odt export with 'header'

2013-10-23 Thread Andreas Leha
Hi Christian, [bringing this back on the list] Andreas Leha andreas.l...@med.uni-goettingen.de writes: Christian Moe m...@christianmoe.com writes: Andreas Leha writes: 3. Give the first page the page style OrgFirstPage. Which I had to create new. Is that intended? No, I get that out

Re: [O] [PATCH] Re: manual linebreaks in odt

2013-10-23 Thread Andreas Leha
Hi Nicolas and Christian, Nicolas Goaziou n.goaz...@gmail.com writes: Hello, Christian Moe m...@christianmoe.com writes: Nicolas, Andreas did put the \\ at the end, but the line must have got wrapped in your email client. You're right. For some reason, Gnus sometimes eats newline

Re: [O] trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating

2013-10-23 Thread Glyn Millington
Xebar Saram zelt...@gmail.com writes: Glyn: thx alot for the example. That does work but then i really hate manually having to add the '-' at the start of each page and then also indenting each line, is there a solution for that? My problem is that I know a little LaTeX and less lisp! I

Re: [O] Beamer export: How to handle overlayarea

2013-10-23 Thread James Harkins
On Oct 24, 2013 12:58 AM, Nicolas Goaziou n.goaz...@gmail.com wrote: There are two things to consider: what belongs to the manual, and what belongs to `org-beamer-environments-extra' docstring. I think it is reasonable for the manual not to talk about %o, %r... but, instead, simply point to

Re: [O] org-babel generated images and +ATTR_LATEX

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Edgington
Hi Mike, That does help -- when testing it, I found that the problem had more to do with my header options than to do with the presence or absence of a #+NAME line. But still, with the header options I gave in my original example, org-babel's behavior does seem strange (maybe buggy?) to me. My

[O] org-slidy and other HTML slideshows in org 8.x?

2013-10-23 Thread Jay Dixit
Hey everyone, I'm trying to use Dov Grobgeld's org-slidy (https://github.com/dov/org-slidy) to create HTML-based slideshows using org-mode, but it doesn't seem to be working. I'm not sure, but I suspect this is because the syntax for org's HTML export may have changed? Here are the options used

[O] help me get started with org-publish?

2013-10-23 Thread Jay Dixit
I'm trying to set up org-publish for HTML export and I keep getting strange errors related to org-footnote-normalize. https://gist.github.com/7131173 Anyone have any thoughts? Eventually I'd like to get org-publish working via tramp and web. My goal is to create a blog and post updates to it via

Re: [O] Problem with automatic recursive adding of org-agenda-files

2013-10-23 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Nicolas Richard theonewiththeevill...@yahoo.fr writes: Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: FWIW, I don't even have a `find-lisp-find-files' function in my installation (GNU Emacs 24.3.1). Even if you eval (load-library find-lisp) ? It's built-in for me on GNU Emacs 24.3.1 too.

Re: [O] trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating

2013-10-23 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Xebar Saram zelt...@gmail.com writes: Thanks again guys Rick: But a better approach would be to define your own latex list environment for program steps and use lists: ive never used latex, do you mind expanding on that a bit? Eric: I don't think it's cut, is it? I just tried with your