[O] Agenda with an archived indicator
I am trying to build an agenda view that includes both Archived and non-Archived items, and includes an indicator whether an item is archived or not. Here's how I've gotten it to work so far: In custom agenda: (... (org-agenda-prefix-format %(yn/org-archived-display) %-11c%-11T%-11s) ... ) (defun yn/org-archived-display () (if (get-text-property (point-at-bol) :org-archived) A )) I figured if I learned how org-agenda skips over archived org entries while building the display, that will give some insight into what the code inside that expression should look like, so that code is derived from org-agenda-skip. This has an appreciable slow-down while building the agenda, I assume it's because it is re-parsing the item. Is there something in the environment of the expressions in %() that can be efficiently interrogated for archived/not archived status?
Re: [O] Bug: evaluation of a js block that ouputs a large array does not format the output as a table [8.2.10 (release_8.2.10 @ c:/Chocolatey/lib/Emacs.24.4.0.20141122/tools/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/org/
Hello, Victor Valdivia victor.valdi...@incentings.com writes: When I execute this snippet: #+BEGIN_SRC js return [[1, 2, 3, 4],[1, 2, 3, 4],[1, 2, 3, 4], [1, 2, 3, 4],[1, 2, 3, 4]]; #+END_SRC I get this result instead of a table. #+RESULTS: : [[1 (\, 2) (\, 3) (\, 4)] (\, [1 (\, 2) (\, 3) (\, 4)]) (\, [1 (\, 2) (\, 3) (\, 4)]) (\, [1 (\, 2) (\, 3) (\, 4)]) (\, [1 (\, 2) (\, 3) (\, 4)])] But when I generate a shorter table like this #+BEGIN_SRC js return [[1, 2, 3, 4],[1, 2, 3, 4],[1, 2, 3, 4], [1, 2, 3, 4]]; #+END_SRC I get the expected result. #+RESULTS: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | I think that this happens when node.js generates a output with line breaks, then the function org-babel-js-read cannot parse the output, but I am not sure. I think this was fixed in development branch recently. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
[O] Typo in manual
Carsten et al., I just noticed in footnote 2 of section 2.2 of the org manual, the following typo: , | (2) Clocking only works with headings indented less then 30 stars. ` The 'less then' should be 'less than'. Regards, -- Daniel E. Doherty ded-...@ddoherty.net
Re: [O] changing cells in an org-mode table with Emacs lisp
Hi Tamas On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Tamas Papp tkp...@gmail.com wrote: | a | a | | aa | aa | | aaa | aaa | would be replaced by | *a* | *a* | | aa | *aa* | | aaa | aaa | #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :results silent (defun format-cell (cell row col) (if (= (length cell) col) (concat * cell *) cell)) #+END_SRC | *a* | *a* | | aa | *aa* | | aaa | aaa | #+TBLFM: @$..@$ = '(format-cell @0$0 (org-table-current-dline) (org-table-current-column)) or #+TBLFM: @$..@$ = '(format-cell @0$0 @# $#) For explanations please see the manual. Michael
Re: [O] Efficiency of Org v. LaTeX v. Word
On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Fabrice Popineau fabrice.popin...@supelec.fr wrote: I agree that this study is certainly not large enough to draw strong conclusions, but it raises a couple of questions and some points may require attention. I have spent many years in the TeX world. I see how lots of people use TeX : students, professionals, researchers etc... and I would easily draw 2 categories of people : - those who are programmers in their soul (DEK once said that 2% or so of the whole human race is gifted with programming, the same way some people are gifted to play music etc.) - those who use LaTeX because it is the best typesetting system People who belong to the intersection of those 2 categories will certainly be very efficient in producing documents with LaTeX, much more than what this study shows. But people from the first category may also be efficient in producing documents with Word (Word is programmable too and the typesetting engine is fancier than most people would believe). That is funny, as I still face regularly Word typeset documents that do not handle orphan lines properly, and have at least 2 fonts as body text. Easy to fix, but a non-issue in Latex. As a researcher, handling references and cross-references is not something that is amortized on a one-off paper, it's something that pays off over a few documents. And in a publish-or-perish world, this does usually not take long. As a programmer, I like to be able to run one command (call it 'make' if you wish...) that will run some analysis and recompute both the figures and the document into a new version, possibly versionned. And now you know why I use orgmode too... --paf The real problem is the guys from the second category who stick to use a tool they are not comfortable with but they don't want to admit it. Over the last years, I have seen more and more students come with LaTeX documents which had a very poor appearance. There has been a lot of pressure with the rise of Linux to use LaTeX. Unfortunately the results of using LaTeX may not be up to the expectations. The tool is too complex. It can produce beautiful documents when used right, but it can also easily produce awful documents. You can also spend a lot of time in fixing details, and it happens more frequently than even proficient LaTeX users would admit. In the end, I think the tendency is to a growing number of LaTeX users who use it poorly. Finally, today, my experience is that publishers charge much more for LaTeX documents than for Word (or similar tools) documents and they are reluctant to use LaTeX because of its complexity. That was my $0.02 Fabrice 2014-12-27 11:36 GMT+01:00 M elwood...@web.de: Von: Paul Rudin p...@rudin.co.uk Datum: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 10:05:19 + An: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Betreff: Re: [O] Efficiency of Org v. LaTeX v. Word Ken Mankoff mank...@gmail.com writes: People here might be interested in a publication from [2014-12-19 Fri] available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115069 Title: An Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems Used in Academic Research and Development Summary: Word users are more efficient and have less errors than even experienced LaTeX users. Someone here should repeat experiment and add Org into the mix, perhaps Org - ODT and/or Org - LaTeX and see if it helps or hurts. I assume Org would trump LaTeX, but would Org - ODT or Org - X - DOCX (via pandoc) beat straight Word? No mention of emacs... who uses anything else to prepare their LaTeX? Did you forget the ;-) or are you serious? Emacs is for sure a very good one, but there are a lot of popular alternatives, if you have a look at the (for sure not representative) voting on the answers of this discussion here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/339/latex-editors-ides (It's clear, that people may have voted for several of those editors, so that no valid statistics at all, but at least an idea...) Is there any real survey result about which editors LaTeX users use? Martin -- Fabrice Popineau - SUPELEC Département Informatique 3, rue Joliot Curie 91192 Gif/Yvette Cedex Tel direct : +33 (0) 169851950 Standard : +33 (0) 169851212 --
Re: [O] Efficiency of Org v. LaTeX v. Word
The study is an obvious diatribe couched in (poorly done) scientific method. It almost seems like these researchers have at some time been required to use LaTeX and are angry over it. I will agree that LaTeX is slower and less efficient than LibreOffice (I don't have Word on any of my computers but the argument I suppose is the same), if your only interest is pounding out text of a first draft. But the study didn't allow for the effects of proofreading, etc., and all the things that are always done when producing something for publication. I expect that the differences in grammar and orthographic errors will be insignificant. A 30-minute test is ridiculous. More meaningful would have been end-to-end time to complete a given document. Maybe then Word would have still been faster; I don't know. But that doesn't tell the whole story by any means, including the very important matter of long-term storage in a non-proprietary format. -- Bob Newell Honolulu, Hawai`i * Sent via Ma Gnus 0.12-Emacs 24.3-Linux Mint 17 *
[O] Drawers and visibility cycling
I've never been able to get drawers to go through a visibility cycle, and so have always avoided using them, but now I have a use-case in which they would be very handy. Here's my not working process: + type some sample text. + select the region and do `C-c C-x d' + I'm queried for the title of the drawer and type test The result looks like this: :testdrawer: test content :END: However, when I put point on :testdrawer: and hit TAB, it doesn't go through any kind of cycle---just sits there. What am I doing wrong? Thank you, steven arntson
Re: [O] Drawers and visibility cycling
Steven Arntson ste...@stevenarntson.com writes: Here's my not working process: + type some sample text. + select the region and do `C-c C-x d' + I'm queried for the title of the drawer and type test The result looks like this: :testdrawer: test content :END: I've always had to put the drawer title in a line with all the drawer names like this: #+DRAWERS: EXPANSION PROPERTIES CLOCK LOGBOOK TESTDRAWER -- Bob Newell Honolulu, Hawai`i * Sent via Ma Gnus 0.12-Emacs 24.3-Linux Mint 17 *
Re: [O] Drawers and visibility cycling
Bob Newell bobnew...@bobnewell.net writes: Steven Arntson ste...@stevenarntson.com writes: Here's my not working process: + type some sample text. + select the region and do `C-c C-x d' + I'm queried for the title of the drawer and type test The result looks like this: :testdrawer: test content :END: I've always had to put the drawer title in a line with all the drawer names like this: #+DRAWERS: EXPANSION PROPERTIES CLOCK LOGBOOK TESTDRAWER I gave this a try, adding #+DRAWERS: DATA and then created a drawer: :DATA: test data :END: and I still can't get it to do anything when I put point on `DATA'. I did `C-h k' just to verify that TAB is running `org-cycle', which it is. I'm perplexed!
[O] Org-mode to feed a database
This is, in all likelihood, a crazy idea. Please excuse me for that. I often need to get a number of people enter complex survey data into a database using some kind of forms. The forms I need are fairly complex (with several nested grids, for example). I need radio-buttons and drop-down menus-equivalents. I was thinking if it would be worth it to use Org-mode for data entry. The idea would be something like this. We have a template org file that is copied for each survey respondent. The template contains “blank” org tables and some source blocks. Responses are filled into the org tables, and then the source blocks are evaluated to feed the data into the database. You can version-control the whole thing so that different people can create these records and push it to a centralised git repository. Has anyone done anything like this? What has been the experience? There are two aspects that immediately come to my mind. 1. Is org adequately feature rich for such a scenario? There are two concerns I can think of right now. 1.1 Would feeding information from one Org table to another become too complicated? 1.2 Is there a way to build in tab-completion for columns in Org-table using pre-specified categories? 2. In my case, people who would enter the data into org files would not have used emacs before. So, there is a learning curve. Is it worth it? Or should one just build a web-based graphic application for such people to use? Vikas
Re: [O] Drawers and visibility cycling
Steven Arntson ste...@stevenarntson.com writes: Bob Newell bobnew...@bobnewell.net writes: Steven Arntson ste...@stevenarntson.com writes: Here's my not working process: + type some sample text. + select the region and do `C-c C-x d' + I'm queried for the title of the drawer and type test The result looks like this: :testdrawer: test content :END: I've always had to put the drawer title in a line with all the drawer names like this: #+DRAWERS: EXPANSION PROPERTIES CLOCK LOGBOOK TESTDRAWER I gave this a try, adding #+DRAWERS: DATA and then created a drawer: :DATA: test data :END: and I still can't get it to do anything when I put point on `DATA'. I did `C-h k' just to verify that TAB is running `org-cycle', which it is. I'm perplexed! For the list: Bob wrote me the solution over email: Try closing the file and reopening. You have to force a re-read and re-eval. There is another way to do this but I can't recall it quickly. It worked perfectly. Thank you! steven
