[Orgmode] Workflow for attaching, linking, and saving bibtex links together with notes?

2009-08-11 Thread Alan E. Davis
I would like to streamline as much as possible the saving of notes, to the point of bookmarking---ala Zotero, only leaving me free to orient it to my system. Here's my use case. I'm sure many others are doing this, and I would ask advice to short cut the system, to the fewest possible steps. I

[Orgmode] Re: Workflow for attaching, linking, and saving bibtex links together with notes?

2009-08-11 Thread Alan E. Davis
I wrote: Let's say I've already done this. Reporting some progress on my own query: I have successfully installed the org-remember and org-store-link JavaScripts for Acroread. This is helpful. Would like to do a similar thing for a free reader like ocular or evince. Is there something else?

[Orgmode] How do people do it: lots of tags?

2009-08-13 Thread Alan E. Davis
Working in an 80-90 character line format, I am afraid to use more than a few tags, and I try to make them short. After well over a year, I am still a bumbling novice with org-mode, but I'm beginning to have some insight, perhaps, into how some things can work. I like the idea of tags alot, and

[Orgmode] C-e skips incrementally to end of a long line

2009-08-23 Thread Alan E. Davis
Some time ago, I learned about a *feature* to allow C to go forward to the end of the line BEFORE the tags, and similarly to enable that C-a in a headline would only proceed to the beginning of the headline text, and not to the absolute line beginning. For a while, I have been suffering what

[Orgmode] EDB and org?

2009-08-29 Thread Alan E. Davis
This may be a stretch, in fact I am quite sure it is. I am surprized that I have never seen a reference to EDB (Emacs Data Base) on the list, or elsewhere, with reference to org-mode. I had an elaborate scheme at one time to keep my addresses in EDB, and output templates to set up a latex

[Orgmode] bad habit (deleting elipses in folded tree)

2009-09-01 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have a bad habit. How can I defeat it? Often an elipsis (...) is seen at the bottom of a new entry from a remember template. I find myself deleting them, compulsively. I'm not so sure, but I THINK that sometimes this is ok, and I now am afraid I have discovered that at some times a whole

Re: [Orgmode] bad habit (deleting elipses in folded tree)

2009-09-01 Thread Alan E. Davis
Well noted. Alan You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing---that's what counts. Richard Feynman

[Orgmode] is there a hook to save a remember buffer?

2009-09-08 Thread Alan E. Davis
Is there a hook to save the remember buffer when I type C-c C-r when I'm in an unsaved remember buffer? That would be almost as good, perhaps better, than saving the remember buffer to a special file or directory. Alan You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but

[Orgmode] Re: is there a hook to save a remember buffer?

2009-09-09 Thread Alan E. Davis
. Richard Feynman On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a hook to save the remember buffer when I type C-c C-r when I'm in an unsaved remember buffer? That would be almost as good, perhaps better, than saving the remember buffer to a special file

Export to LaTeX Beamer. [WAS: Re: [Orgmode] Re: LaTeX export bugs?]

2009-09-20 Thread Alan E. Davis
Hello: I was happy to see a simple formula for exporting to Beamer. The following worked initially. However, this initialization routine was able to run only when org-latex had already been loaded. On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Nick Dokos nicholas.do...@hp.com wrote: Here's the

[Orgmode] bug?: C-e passes ellipses if no tags are present

2009-09-24 Thread Alan E. Davis
This may not be a bug, but it bugs me alot. When using remember to store a note, C-e passes the ellipses. I am using an alternate font for the ellipses. I live in utter terror of deleting ellipses, so I am keenly aware anymore when something is out of the ordinary. It doesn't feel right to me

Re: [Orgmode] bug?: C-e passes ellipses if no tags are present

2009-09-25 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you for fixing this. On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Carsten Dominik carsten.domi...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, this counts as a bug. However, I don't know why you put this in context with remember. It has nothing to do with that. Perhaps it recalls remember to my mind because I lean

[Orgmode] Editing LaTeX code in org-mode

2009-09-27 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am using the LaTeX class examdesign to write exams. It seems I can pretty nicely get the header included into org for purposes of exporting. So far, I haven't figured out how to convert plain text exams to a form that examdesign can use, so I need to edit latex surrounded by #+BEGIN_LaTeX

Re: [Orgmode] Re: A simpler remember architecture

2009-10-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
I've been watching this thread closely. At this point I want to jump in. I like the ideas that have been posted here so far, about a different way of organizing remember in org. I'm not completely certain, but it seems that part of what was asked for earlier is included in org-remember already,

[Orgmode] Source Code blocks in arbitrary languages?

2009-10-20 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am interested in the graphing language gri, for which there does exist a gri-mode.el. Is it possible to use Source Code blocks in Org-Mode with arbitrary languages for which there is an emacs mode? For example, postscript? Profuse thanks for this great package. Alan

[Orgmode] How to Strip TODO headword and refile as a note

2009-10-24 Thread Alan E. Davis
I had a TODO item to go to the bank. At the bank I had some issues to discuss with a representative. Now I'm home, I am going over my agenda todo listing, and see this item, with a priority of A. I stumbled momentarily, realizing I not only want to archive this, get it out of my agenda and todo

Re: [Orgmode] Re: contact management in org-mode?

2009-10-29 Thread Alan E. Davis
I'll mention EDB, emacs data base, here, even though I haven't used it for several years. http://gnuvola.org/software/edb/ It's available on many GNU/Linux distros, as a package. It is for Gentoo, and perhaps for Debian/Ubuntu as well. It is extensible/programmable, so that various interfaces

[Orgmode] Best way to implement Keywords feature

2009-11-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
In some cases, a single headword entry can relate to a large number of topics. I have tried dealing with longer tag lists: automatic adjustment of tags column (on this list a little utility was posted: org-adjust-tags-column-reset-tags. I THINK that a keyword list may allow more freedom to

Re: [Orgmode] Best way to implement Keywords feature

2009-11-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Samuel Wales samolog...@gmail.com wrote: One such solution is to use header-line-format to display olpath. I don't understand this. In scientific/academic publications, one often sees a list of Keywords in the topmatter. That being said, I am not certain

Re: [Orgmode] How to add entries to an org file, not diary

2009-11-09 Thread Alan E. Davis
At Mon, 9 Nov 2009 22:09:23 +0100, Carsten Dominik carsten.domi...@gmail.com wrote: Right now I have implemented i d for day entries, i b for blocks, i a for anniversaries (which will be collected under a special heading Anniversaries in your `diary.org' i j To

[Orgmode] Different behavior of elipses depends on whether file is open

2009-11-12 Thread Alan E. Davis
I just inserted a headline using this template: (System ?s * %U %(system-name):: %?% ~/org/System.Journal.org Incoming) I typed a long headline, and thought Oh, well, I'll just go to the end of the line with my special Ctl-e (stops before

[Orgmode] Request for guidance: Export ONLY headlines matching occur search?

2009-12-21 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am keeping notes in a single file about several topics. I can isolate headlines about these topics/products, by an agenda occur search: C-a a / key phrase . I have made a template to print a memo about these products, but it seems I must copy the headlines by hand to a register

[Orgmode] Re: Request for guidance: Export ONLY headlines matching occur search?

2009-12-21 Thread Alan E. Davis
:48 PM, Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote: I am keeping notes in a single file about several topics. I can isolate headlines about these topics/products, by an agenda occur search: C-a a / key phrase . I have made a template to print a memo about these products, but it seems

[Orgmode] Re: Request for guidance: Export ONLY headlines matching occur search?

2009-12-21 Thread Alan E. Davis
, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote: For what it's worth, I forgot to attach one of the files. In case this is of interest to others, it is attached herewith. All I really need to know is how to export ONLY the headlines that are returned by an agenda occur search

[Orgmode] Isolate export parameters in file from currently exporting subtree

2010-01-19 Thread Alan E. Davis
In one large file, I would like to keep a large number of individual subtrees, each for independent export to LaTeX. Is it possible to isolate the extra parameters needed for a subtree isolated from the rest of the file? For example: * Handouts ** Plants #+TITLE: 125 General Principles of Plant

Re: [Orgmode] Re: How to combine the analogue (Moleskine) world with digital (org-mode) world ?

2010-01-25 Thread Alan E. Davis
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Austin Frank austin.fr...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Jan 24 2010, Torsten Wagner wrote: notebook as I process them. Nowadays I keep a cheaper flimsier notebook in my back pocket at all times [1]. In addition to letting me guiltlessly destroy the thing, it's

[Orgmode] Scheduling an event of uncertain date within a month

2010-02-22 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am beginning to understand how to use scheduling. However I ran across a problem I didn't know how to solve: I know that in early March an event will take place on a Friday, but I don't remember the date. Can anyone make a suggestion how to handle this? Thank you, again and again, for

[O] Commenting a diary sexp line??

2011-07-18 Thread Alan E. Davis
The following is in one of my Agenda files, I guess. Is there any way to comment it out, so that it is not evaluated and displayed in the agenda. This seems to be displayed for every day. I wanted to start a list of various functions, but this one seems to be preeminent. Thank you, Alan Davis

Re: [O] Commenting a diary sexp line??

2011-07-18 Thread Alan E. Davis
Daily Scrum :| %%(let ((dayname (calendar-day-of-week date))(day (car (cdr date(memq dayname '(1 2 3 4 5))) :|[2009-07-01 Wed] :` #+END_EXAMPLE On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote: The following is in one of my Agenda files, I guess. Is there any

[O] Fwd: Commenting a diary sexp line??

2011-07-19 Thread Alan E. Davis
I finally Archived this subheading. I am trying to get org-mobile/mobile-org running on my new Android phone, and org-mobile-push choked on three sexps. Alan On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:54 AM, suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Michael Markert

[O] Overall organization/setup for org mode: Projects and Tasks

2011-09-14 Thread Alan E. Davis
I've been using org-mode for a few years. My agenda is cluttered with tasks that are weeks and even months past due. I am this close to declaring orgmode bankruptcy and starting from scratch, except my current setup works so well for other things. Might still do that, but I want to ask for

Re: [O] Overall organization/setup for org mode: Projects and Tasks

2011-09-18 Thread Alan E. Davis
, Alan E. Davis wrote: I've been using org-mode for a few years. My agenda is cluttered with tasks that are weeks and even months past due. I am this close to declaring orgmode bankruptcy and starting from scratch, except my current setup works so well for other things. Might still do

Re: [O] How to get numbered lists (1), (2), … ?

2011-10-13 Thread Alan E. Davis
Without diving into how to set it up in org-mode, the paralist package for LaTeX enables inline numbered lists, as in %% In preamble \usepackage{paralist} %% In document \begin{inparaenum} \item first element \item second element \end{inparaenum} As to how to organize this to be an option

[O] elisp: link type isn't working

2012-01-24 Thread Alan E. Davis
I've been using an elisp function to open an encrypted file. I borrowed this setup from, I think, Sacha Chua's blog. It's worked unfailingly for at least a couple of years, until tonight. I keep some sensitive information in a file, junk.org. when encrypted using bcrypt, the file is renamed

Re: [O] How do teachers use org-mode

2012-02-01 Thread Alan E. Davis
I recently retired from teaching (perhaps temporarily). I was a high school science teacher, for the most part. I was the odd man out in my school district, perhaps the only one who used GNU/Linux, and on the island where I was working/living the only computer course in the public schools was

[Orgmode] Re: Feature Request: Assort a subtree randomly ?

2011-01-30 Thread Alan E. Davis
That is excellent. Not too late, at all. This ability to sort by a function is excellent: presumably one could use a soundex algorithm! Thank you, Alan ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.

Re: [Orgmode] Easily go to some frequently accessed heading (narrowed to region)

2011-02-02 Thread Alan E. Davis
I adapted something from Sacha Chua: a file with links to my most frequently accessed links. I too have been seeking some way to make this automatic, but even as it is, it works great. I call the file Pointers.org. It is just an org-mode file, each headline is a link. Then, in my init file

[O] Defining capture-templates: custom and init file

2011-03-07 Thread Alan E. Davis
I would like to request advice, on how can I set up so most of my capture templates are loaded from a file (~/org/capture-templates.el in my case) and still retain the ability to define new capture templates on the fly. I want the best of both worlds: - capture-templates.el is easier for me

Re: [O] Defining capture-templates: custom and init file

2011-03-07 Thread Alan E. Davis
...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 12:17:58 +1000 Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to request advice, on how can I set up so most of my capture templates are loaded from a file (~/org/capture-templates.el in my case) and still retain the ability to define new capture

Re: [O] Defining capture-templates: custom and init file

2011-03-08 Thread Alan E. Davis
: Hi Alan, On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 16:13:34 +1000 Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote: I have noticed the message from within the customization interface that some variable or another was set outside of customization, and there may be unpredictable results. Wonder what that really means

Re: [O] Re: zotero (or mendeley) integration with org

2011-03-29 Thread Alan E. Davis
It's in my mind to find a way to use orgmode for organizing pdfs and BibTex data. I haven't untangled storage of PDFs and linking to BibTeX, and I haven't found a solution to organizing it all through orgmode. An important piece of the puzzle, though, needs mention: cb2bib helps semi-automate

Re: [O] Re: zotero (or mendeley) integration with org

2011-04-01 Thread Alan E. Davis
Is it possible to use org babel to extract bibtex entries from file of notes to a *.bib file? The stumbling point for me in saving bibtex sources is I don't see a way to use the file as a bibtex *.bib file so as to use that as the direct source for the publication. Perhaps this could be

Re: [O] Re: zotero (or mendeley) integration with org

2011-04-02 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have been enlightened. This closes a loop for my handling of literature. Thank you both. alan

Re: [O] [ANN] org-bibtex.el --- convert between Org headings and bibtex entries

2011-04-23 Thread Alan E. Davis
Comments below On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Eric Schulte schulte.e...@gmail.comwrote: Is there a more natural way that this could integrate with external tools like cb2bib? I've just now installed cb2bib, and I'm not sure I fully grasp its usage. I also found cb2Bib pretty opaque

Re: [O] [ANN] org-bibtex.el --- convert between Org headings and bibtex entries

2011-04-24 Thread Alan E. Davis
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Eric Schulte schulte.e...@gmail.comwrote: It sounds like asking the cb2bib developers to either automatically copy completed entries to the clipboard, or to add a button implementing this behavior would be ideal. Indeed, this is about what cb2Bib does, to a

Re: [O] Keeping an advanced dictionary in Org-mode?

2011-06-06 Thread Alan E. Davis
FWIW: I won't get into it much for now, but I have used a band format for lexical data. There are other names for this type of free form database. I wrote a crude elisp routine to recover entries into LaTeX formatted files. A band is a record, so to speak. I am not very well qualified in

Re: [O] Keeping an advanced dictionary in Org-mode?

2011-06-07 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you for the link. On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Christian Moe m...@christianmoe.com wrote: Hi, Thanks, these pointers were really helpful -- whether I end up doing something similar, or using them to work out how I want to do this in Org, or using other tools I was able to discover

Re: [O] Audio/video file playback in org mode

2011-06-11 Thread Alan E. Davis
I'll jump in and mention a solution to an at least similar problem I hacked, albeit incompletely, some time ago. I baldly stole code from dired-mplayer at http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EMMS#toc10 , and have been using the result, dired-vlc ever since. The main point of this was to play

[O] Long table, landscape or sideways, LaTeX PDF

2011-06-14 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have to apologize first, as I had this working at home, to some extent. Not well. I have to submit a printout of grades, today, if possible, and I've been struggling with it. Can't find the cookbook formula! (I would like to use the \footnotesize feature also). So far I've had to go

Re: [O] Long table, landscape or sideways, LaTeX PDF

2011-06-15 Thread Alan E. Davis
This is what worked TO AN EXTENT (no page breaks in table): (At top of org file:) #+ATTR_LaTeX: longtable align=l|lp{3cm}r|l #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{pdflscape} #+LaTeX: \begin{center} \begin{landscape} #+LaTeX: {}\begin{sidewaystable}\footnotesize [ORG TABLE HERE]

Re: [O] Long table, landscape or sideways, LaTeX PDF

2011-06-15 Thread Alan E. Davis
...@gmail.com Hi Nick and Alan, On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:00:11 -0400 Nick Dokos nicholas.do...@hp.com wrote: suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote: (I would like to use the \footnotesize feature also

Re: [Orgmode] Re: RELEASE: Org-mode 6.08a

2008-10-06 Thread Alan E. Davis
I like that alot! I might second the suggestion to provide an option to copy files. In fact, depending on the filesystem (same filesystem or not, on a GNU/Linux system), a hard link would be fantastic! Thank you for this. Alan Davis Let me take a stab at it. 1. Create a test file. test.org

[Orgmode] Relative clocking

2008-11-23 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have been taking notes on videos, and need a relative clock function, starting when I start the film. Each note should start with a time stamp HH:MM indicating the time relative to the beginning of the film. I need to use these notes to prepare study guides for my students. It is probably

[Orgmode] How to specify top or bottom under a headline in remember templates?

2008-11-23 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have found org mode/remember extremely useful for logging various things during the day, both at work and at home. I have defined about 30 templates that make it extremely simple to insert notes or entries into logfiles or journals. In some cases, it is convenient to have two or three

[Orgmode] Re: Relative clocking [Further discussion and ideas by OP]

2008-11-23 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have looked at the list archives, and discovered some previous postings on a similar topic, about elapsed time. Perhaps I can be more specific. On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been taking notes on videos, and need a relative clock function

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Relative clocking [Further discussion and ideas by OP]

2008-11-24 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you for the reply. On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Carsten Dominik [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Why would you want to turn off the clock? It is actually not running, only a starting time is recorded. Just start it again when you need a new clock. Perfect! Thank you. A further

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Relative clocking [Further discussion and ideas by OP]

2008-11-25 Thread Alan E. Davis
a video, and continuing notes. Thank you again, Alan On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Carsten Dominik [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Nov 24, 2008, at 9:31 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: Thank you for the reply. On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Carsten Dominik [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Why would you

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Relative clocking [Further discussion and ideas by OP]

2008-11-25 Thread Alan E. Davis
Perfect, thank you, het again. This is *very* helpful. I think I can implement pause functions at some point, as well; and the same adjustment function will be possible. Perhaps a format variable for the output, like ET: as one might wish. I can get my head around these ideas. They won't be

Re: [Orgmode] searchable refcard?

2008-11-27 Thread Alan E. Davis
I hope I don't make a nuisance of myself by responding to this. I posted at some earlier date about my idea of making an org-help file help.org that I can call up with a keystroke. This is an extension of the texinfo concept, perhaps, or a subset of it. I think this would best be done in

Re: [Orgmode] searchable refcard?

2008-11-27 Thread Alan E. Davis
, or hardly ever. - Carsten I On Nov 27, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: I hope I don't make a nuisance of myself by responding to this. I posted at some earlier date about my idea of making an org-help file help.org that I can call up with a keystroke. This is an extension

Re: [Orgmode] searchable refcard?

2008-12-01 Thread Alan E. Davis
That all is a great help. I like both ideas, but at the present it is much easier for me to go through orgcard.tex and study the info docs. I think I have some mistakes in this, but it's been an interesting study to carefully comb through one or two headlines' worth (Agenda and clocking) and add

[Orgmode] Is this a patch? minor typo in org.texi?

2008-12-12 Thread Alan E. Davis
I just noticed this little item, and I think it's a typo. I don't know the correct way to generate a patch: does this do the trick? 5472,5473c5472,5473 @kindex C-c C-x @item C-c C-x --- @kindex C-c C-x @item C-c C-x 5487c5487 @kindex --- @kindex Thank you, Alan D -- Alan Davis

[Orgmode] How to pause the relative timer

2009-01-04 Thread Alan E. Davis
I jumped into some elisp, and eventually I might get it, but while I think I'm close, my vacation is over, and I'm going to call uncle. Here is some crummy code I started putting together to try to pause the relative timer in org-timer.el. Can someone give me a nudge, and suggest what's wrong?

[Orgmode] Re: BROKEN BADLY: How to pause the relative timer. new version and warning

2009-01-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
dired-vlc-program file))) (if (equal timer '(4)) (org-timer-start)) ) ;; Doesn't work. ;(defun vlc-pause () ; (interactive) ; Depends on vlc's rc mode. ; (process-send-string ; junk pause\n)) ;; end dired-vlc.el ;;-- On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Alan E. Davis lngn

[Orgmode] Re: How to pause the relative timer

2009-01-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
Hello: I have been able to put together a tentative solution to this problem of pausing the relative timer. It needs work, but perhaps one will be forgiven for posting it (below). It has mostly been stolen, as anyone will see: Code -- (defvar org-timer-pause-time

[Orgmode] remember memo template: does any body do this?

2009-01-08 Thread Alan E. Davis
Org-remember with several templates for all kinds of notetaking. I have a plan to generate memos from some of the notes. I would like to use a template that prompts for subject and recipient, and generate the memo by exporting to LaTeX. If all goes well it will save me a bunch of time. Two

[Orgmode] Org-remember template: face for selection key in brackets?

2009-01-12 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have a burgeoning number of templates, at least enough so I have to pause to read through them during the selection process. I guess there is currently not a face available for the character to select the template (denoted by, eg., ?K). Is it easy to add a specific bold face to this button?

Re: [Orgmode] Org-remember template: face for selection key in brackets?

2009-01-17 Thread Alan E. Davis
will become better after James' rewrite of the remember interface, so lets wait for this and take another look then. - Carsten On Jan 12, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: I have a burgeoning number of templates, at least enough so I have to pause to read through them during

[Orgmode] Org-remember: can the target file be not in org-mode?

2009-01-19 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have designed a little memo template that inserts the header, then highlighted text, then the end of the file. I'd like to output this to a file, best with a unique name, instead of an org-mode file. Is it possible? Kind of a non-export export? I get the message that the file must be in

[Orgmode] Error making new org-mode git pull

2009-01-22 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have attempted today to do a routine update by running git pull, then making. Make fails with the following message: Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/65wl-beta.el (source)... In toplevel form: lisp/org-faces.el:399:1:Error: Wrong number of arguments: #[(face spec doc rest args) \304\30D F

[Orgmode] Novice questions about using git for personal data files

2009-01-23 Thread Alan E. Davis
I followed the steps outlined in the worg tutorial about using git to keep track of changes to one's own org data tree. I still don't understand: how does one go about recovering an earlier version of a file that has been corrupted? Is there a good tutorial on this aspect of using git? I really

Re: [Orgmode] Wishlist: drop a4paper option from the default LaTeX class

2009-01-31 Thread Alan E. Davis
I also have to manually remove the a4 option. It's not hard to do, but I cannot directly export to pdf because of this. On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.comwrote: That default just requires some customization. I already use my own header/footer code, so I've

[Orgmode] syncing org-mode files on three unconnected machines?

2009-02-08 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am studying and using git in several ways at work and at home, and hope to dive further into the agenda possibilities. I have been using org-mode at work, on two machines, as well as at home, on my preferred main machine. I also would like to run emacs and org-mode sometimes on a laptop. I am

[Orgmode] How to tag paragraphs?

2009-02-10 Thread Alan E. Davis
I would like to ask, without asking for any new features, how writers among the Org-mode community have come up with solutions for tagging paragraphs. I had submitted a manuscript to a friend-reviewer a number of years ago. He tagged paragraphs by little keywords or numbers. This mimicked the

[Orgmode] Re: How to tag paragraphs?

2009-02-10 Thread Alan E. Davis
I'll do. Thanks, Alan On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to ask, without asking for any new features, how writers among the Org-mode community have come up with solutions for tagging paragrap -- Alan Davis It is undesirable to believe

[Orgmode] sorting and merging files

2009-02-12 Thread Alan E. Davis
I've gotten into a bit of a bind on sorting. A little explanation: I've been working at keeping the ~/org directory of three machines syncronized through a master repo on a USB flash drive. I've made a bit of progress, and for simple updates, it is basically working. I still don't grok merging

[Orgmode] hyperlink to info documentation

2009-02-14 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have tried to link to a specific paragraph in an info file. The info docs do not mention linking with the info link type. Files are linkable with file. This link can link to a search inside an org file: file:projects.org::some words I cannot make such a link work in an info file.

[Orgmode] proposal to separate org-special-ctrl-a/e into two variables

2009-02-22 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have found the behavior of the cursor at the beginning of the line to be clumsy, and troublesome. I cannot easily set a region, for example. However, the special setting of ctrl-e is extremely useful. A single variable controls these two variables, in a unified way. This variable also has

[Orgmode] A crummy little popup for org keybindings help

2009-02-28 Thread Alan E. Davis
Some time ago, the idea of an instant reference card was bantered about on the list. I presented a file called org-help.org. I have worked on it from time to time, and it's changed quite a bit. My most recent idea is to have it available on a keystroke, completely folded, and each line would

[Orgmode] Re: MORE: Using git via USB for personal org dir and other data files

2009-02-28 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you Bernt (and Sebastian): I now understand that it is necessary to pull the changes to the alternate tree before pushing. This will make a big difference in the future, I believe. It worked as advertized on the /tmp/junk experiment. I think the other point I had missed, that would be

[Orgmode] Re: MORE: Using git via USB for personal org dir and other data files

2009-02-28 Thread Alan E. Davis
One more point: May I ask for an example of a case when branching would make sense in the context of this synchronization usage of Git? Alan -- Alan Davis An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent. ---Lord Raleigh (John

[Orgmode] Re: A crummy little popup for org keybindings help

2009-03-01 Thread Alan E. Davis
flakey when the cursor is at in importune place on the window. Attached. Alan On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote: Some time ago, the idea of an instant reference card was bantered about on the list. I presented a file called org-help.org. I have worked

[Orgmode] Worg: broken link for tracking habits minitutorial

2009-03-07 Thread Alan E. Davis
It looks like the link to his tutorial has been lost with the new addition of the git/bzr tutorial that follows it, on worg. I hope it's still available, as I intend to implement some of the ideas in that document. Alan -- Alan Davis An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but

Re: [Orgmode] org-annotation mode version 0.4

2009-03-07 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have installed this new version three times. Using your faq.html was more straightforward. When I tried it by hand, I failed. I have taken the liberty to edit a copy of org-annotation-helper.el in my git repository of org-mode. I have tried to clarify the explanation of how to get this tool

Re: [Orgmode] removal of appointments

2009-03-12 Thread Alan E. Davis
Richard: I want to preface this with a statement of truth: I don't know what I am talking about. On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Richard Riley rileyrg...@googlemail.comwrote: I guess I was just fishing to see if someone had implemented something like a make a noise

[Orgmode] visiting org-remember template target files

2009-03-15 Thread Alan E. Davis
I've come to rely on org-remember for many daily purposes. In order to be able to readily access the target files, I've kept a set of links in a separate file---an index, as it were. I would find it extremely useful to have a way to access these files as needed in the same familiar way I access

[Orgmode] Feature Request: that the pdf saved automatically from agenda be immediately displayed

2009-03-15 Thread Alan E. Davis
The saving of a pdf is a really nice feature. I had hacked org-agenda, I think, to automatically do this. However, it would be nicer if immediate display were optional. I don't know whether \C-u makes sense as a prefix to saving a file with \C-x \C-w. Perhaps not. Perhaps this cannot even be

Re: [Orgmode] a small remember suggestion

2009-03-21 Thread Alan E. Davis
[I am reposting this to the list, as I'd intended. IOt turned out I'd responded only to the OP.] I posted regarding this problem in an earlier thread about losing relatively large and complex *remember* buffers that I had forgotten to save (C-c C-c). My usage has improved, and this has been

Re: [Orgmode] a small remember suggestion

2009-03-22 Thread Alan E. Davis
Carsten: This is perfect! Thank you again. Alan Davis Study and, in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all of our lives. Albert Einstein An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need

Re: [Orgmode] a small remember suggestion

2009-03-24 Thread Alan E. Davis
Wasn't going to say anything but at risk of sticking my foot in my mouth: I learned that the convention for naming backups in Emacs is they end in ~. Is it possible that if this is done, Emacs will automatically use the mechanism that is available to keep a given number of old versions and a

Re: [Orgmode] a small remember suggestion

2009-03-25 Thread Alan E. Davis
What would happen then if one called remember from a previous remember buffer, then saved it? Alan Davis An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent. ---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son, who was also a scientist.

Re: Project definition (WAS: [Orgmode] Re: Emacs-orgmode Digest, Vol 37, Issue 121--)

2009-03-30 Thread Alan E. Davis
Hello: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Eraldo Helal ad...@eraldo.at wrote: An interesting question would be how to generalize this to update remember templates accordingly.  Possibly the best approach would be to have a defining form that would define a project in a single s-expression,

[Orgmode] Key maps for remember?

2009-03-30 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have about used up all the letters in the alphabet on org-remember keybindings. Now I'm using numbers. Is there any way to assign sequences upon a single key? Like a keymap? Alan Davis An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.

Re: [Orgmode] [ANN] org-fstree 0.2

2009-03-31 Thread Alan E. Davis
Together with the ability to limit the recursions, this is potentially useful. Thank you. A longstanding item on my wishlist has been a Linux implementation of an old MSDOG workalike, 4DOS with the 4dos shell. That shell worked alot like dir but it kept a field for comments. So, with those

[Orgmode] saving pdf files from agenda: color mangling revisited

2009-04-06 Thread Alan E. Davis
Some time ago I posted a query about a problem I have been having with agenda: that when I save pdf files using the amazing new facility to just save using (C-u) C-x C-w and naming the file *.pdf . Noone else seemed to have the exact same problem, so I trashed almost all of the color and face

[Orgmode] Exporting org to LaTeX to PDF: headings do not convert to sections

2009-05-21 Thread Alan E. Davis
An outline, when exported as PDF, shows no sections. When exporting to LaTeX, the following message is received: ERROR: LaTeX Error: Too deeply nested. --- TeX said --- See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H return for immediate help. ... l.110

Re: [Orgmode] Exporting org to LaTeX to PDF: headings do not convert to sections

2009-05-21 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you for the response. On May 21, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote: The only thing you can do in Org is to increase the number of headline levels to the maximum possible: #+OPTION H:5 This doesn't work for me. is I think the maximum you can get. You cal also create a

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Exporting org to LaTeX to PDF: headings do not convert to sections

2009-05-23 Thread Alan E. Davis
This solved my problem also. Thank you! Alan Davis An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent. ---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son, who was also a scientist. ___

[Orgmode] Change line spacing for lists for LaTeX export

2009-06-18 Thread Alan E. Davis
I need to print outlines in a more compact form than LaTeX lists ordinarily provide. I often have used the paralist package, although it conflicts with some other packages. How can I alter the line spacing for the lists directly, for export? I found this suggestion, and I was going to use

[Orgmode] Re: Change line spacing for lists for LaTeX export

2009-06-18 Thread Alan E. Davis
. --- Buckminster Fuller On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote: I need to print outlines in a more compact form than LaTeX lists ordinarily provide. I often have used the paralist package, although it conflicts with some other packages. How can I alter the line spacing

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