[Orgmode] How to use capture to start relative timer? And some other capture issues...

2010-10-07 Thread Alan E. Davis
Org Capture is better than remember in almost all respects. I have made some notes on confusing differences, and other issues, for later. Today, I'll be more specific about something I'd like to do: it seems to me that the capture interface would be useful for starting a relative timer, immediate

[Orgmode] How to handle titles for latex export, multiple subtrees in a single file?

2010-10-20 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am keeping large files, with multiple subtrees, in accordance with recommendations/suggestions. A common roadblock for he has been that a #+TITLE directive in a file is not local to a subtree, at least so far as I have figured out. What is a best practice for keeping multiple subtrees with indi

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January

2010-11-18 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am a keen user of org-mode, whose uses for which seem never to become well defined: as soon as I think I understand it, it morphs, or the horizons of my understanding recede from view. No amount of praise can adequately pay tribute to the massively ingenious organic entity that is org-mode. Th

[Orgmode] Re: Questions about org-capture templates and usage

2010-12-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am at much greater ease due to these two messages. They solve several of my befuddlements about capture. On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote: > I visit newly captured items all the time. If you capture something (I > have C-M-r bound to org-capture) and store it with C-c C-c y

[Orgmode] Cryptic error message(s)

2010-12-16 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have stumbled over error messages in org mode a few times. The following message, or permutations thereof, comes up frequently, but each time I am confused about what it means (albeit I have solved it again today): "The kill is not a (set of) tree(s) - please use to yank anyway". In each ca

Re: [Orgmode] Cryptic error message(s)

2010-12-16 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you again, Carsten. On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote: > S-insertkey is an unfortunate result of a key lookup for the > command yank, which is normally bound to `C-y', but in your setup > also to a key S-insertkey. > > This doesn't look like any set up I have specifica

[Orgmode] Page numbering in manual

2010-12-21 Thread Alan E. Davis
Is it possible to tweak page numbering in the manual, with each chapter having it's separate sequence? The manual is fairly extensive. If a chapter has changed even in a minor way, the numbering of subsequent chapters is also affected. With chapter-by-chapter page numbering, once could keep the

[Orgmode] Re: Page numbering in manual

2010-12-22 Thread Alan E. Davis
llution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value." --- R. Buckminster Fuller On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > Is it possible to tweak page numbering in the manual, wit

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Worg needs some reorganizing

2011-01-15 Thread Alan E. Davis
I would like to add a comment about the sidebar concept. If I understand correctly, there is something like a sidebar already, or an index. There are links, but they jump to the SAME PAGE. It would be helpful, at least to me, were these links to point to the pages already pointed to at their ta

[Orgmode] Feature Request: Assort a subtree randomly ?

2011-01-16 Thread Alan E. Davis
Let's say I have a subtree, of review materials, for example. I would like to randomize the order of the elements. I would like to have the option to randomize the subtree in some different ways: 1. sort the members of one subtree that is a list, randomly. 2. sort all the headlines, ra

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 t

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 c

[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 cross-

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 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 how people use the

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 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 jump to t

[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 el

[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 / . 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 or file, t

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

2009-12-21 Thread Alan E. Davis
Dec 21, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Alan E. Davis 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 / . I have made a template to print a >memo about these products, b

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

2009-12-21 Thread Alan E. Davis
Alan On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Alan E. Davis 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

[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 R

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 wrote: > 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 also more comfortable

[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 org-mode

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Displaying your Org agenda after idle time

2010-03-22 Thread Alan E. Davis
I like this also. It would be fantastic if the agenda were displayed, as it is now, while a simple keystroke would return one to the point he was at when the function was called. I might one day have time to try to figure out how to do this, not saying I would be able to do so easily. Alan Davi

Re: [Orgmode] Re: possible bug: TAB after elipsis

2010-03-28 Thread Alan E. Davis
Not sure whether I'm talking about the same phenomenon, but I have started almost routinely adding a tag at the end of every headline inserted by my remember templates. Without the tag, it'seems it's hard to move past the end of the line cleanly to edit the contents. With a tag, using the custom \

Re: [Orgmode] Re: possible bug: TAB after elipsis

2010-03-28 Thread Alan E. Davis
With apologies, Alan On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote: > Hi Alan, > > On Mar 28, 2010, at 1:45 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > >> Not sure whether I'm talking about the same phenomenon, but I have >> started almost routinely adding a tag at the end

Re: [Orgmode] Re: How you ORGanize yourself? (aka: Why not one file to rule'em all?)

2010-04-21 Thread Alan E. Davis
More than you want to know, I'm certain. I would certainly appreciate any ideas that others might provide. I am reluctant to provide much in the way of personal details, but perhaps I do have to provide some detail, in order to call attention to how I use Org-mode, in many aspects

[Orgmode] Relative timer: failure to reset times in active region

2010-04-28 Thread Alan E. Davis
I took some notes on a video this morning, using a relative timer. I wasn't able to start until several minutes into the video. Then, later, I went back and started from the beginning, starting the timer pretty much on time. Now I have to reset all the times in the original notes from this morni

Re: [Orgmode] Re: [OT] gnuplot quality

2010-06-12 Thread Alan E. Davis
I use the gri plotting language to make plots. Does anyone here use this? I am over my head in trying to use babel as a literate programming tool; yet that's exactly what I need to do, else at least have a method for coordinating better comments / notes with the code. Gnuplot was ok when I did

Re: [babel] Re: [Orgmode] Re: [OT] gnuplot quality

2010-06-16 Thread Alan E. Davis
Hello Eric: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > I am surprised, however, at this comment: > >> Gnuplot was ok when I didn't need quailty graphs. > > in what way does gnuplot fall short in terms of quality?  (but keep > this part of the conversatino off-list please to avoid ann

[Orgmode] LaTeX calendar from org-mode agenda?

2010-07-01 Thread Alan E. Davis
I wonder whether anyone has worked up a solution to printing LaTeX monthly or weekly calendars from an org-mode setup? LaTeX calendars can get pretty cluttered up when printed from a diary file, but perhaps tags would help. I was able at some point to print a LaTeX monthly calendar with entries l

[Orgmode] Re: LaTeX calendar from org-mode agenda?

2010-07-08 Thread Alan E. Davis
print out a nice, concise hardcopy checklist from org-agenda would make a world of difference. Alan Davis On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I wonder whether anyone has worked up a solution to printing LaTeX > monthly or weekly calendars from an org-mode setup? >

[Orgmode] LaTeX export: Skip headline lines? "Paragraph" sectioning?

2010-08-29 Thread Alan E. Davis
Sometimes, I have used outliners, like ThinkTank, to organize my thoughts, and reorganize the structure of a document of whatever kind. I don't need headings or sectioning in some cases. I have not found a way to exclude heading lines from LaTeX output in Orgmode, nor have I found a tag to say, "o

Re: [Orgmode] LaTeX export: Skip headline lines? "Paragraph" sectioning?

2010-08-30 Thread Alan E. Davis
Yes, I want (in some cases) to use headlines for purposes of organization. I want at least some of them to disappear in the output. I could turn in a request for a feature, here: #+OPTIONS: H:1 lower:nil Or something else that would give the option that instead of automatically converting all l

Re: [Orgmode] LaTeX export: Skip headline lines? "Paragraph" sectioning?

2010-08-30 Thread Alan E. Davis
> C-h v org-export-latex-low-levels Cool. Especially it's configurable on a case by case basis. I looked at customization of export/latex, but overlooked this. Thank you. Alan ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to

Re: [Orgmode] LaTeX export: Skip headline lines? "Paragraph" sectioning?

2010-08-30 Thread Alan E. Davis
ical way to do this? Thank you for your interest and help. Alan > > > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Nick Dokos wrote: > >> Alan E. Davis wrote: >> >> > Sometimes, I have used outliners, like ThinkTank, to organize my >> > thoughts, and reorgan

Re: [Orgmode] LaTeX export: Skip headline lines? "Paragraph" sectioning?

2010-08-30 Thread Alan E. Davis
ill. Hope this is not a silly question. MY head feels dense today, Alan On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > Scot: > > I see what you mean > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Scot Becker wrote: > >> >> As you'll see org-mode's latex ex

[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
APPT 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 wrote: > The following is in one of my Agenda files, I guess.

[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 wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Michael Markert > wrote: > >> :| * AP

[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
t; focus <- set on projects i should be working _right_now_, kind of > opposite of "hold". > > emacs <- stuff to configure/fix in emacs > > hold <- projects on hold > > bind<- todos "bind some key to do whatever" which I have a lot of

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

[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. Emacs-orgmode@gn

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 to

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

2011-03-07 Thread Alan E. Davis
PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 12:17:58 +1000 > "Alan E. Davis" 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

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

2011-03-08 Thread Alan E. Davis
Alan, > > On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 16:13:34 +1000 > "Alan E. Davis" 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.

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 mak

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 automated

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
Some notes on initially trying out this new tool. I have some reservations as to whether it use it. There are certain good reasons in its favor. This works to both store bibtex database entries and export to .bib files. I REALLY like the automagical harvesting of data using cb2Bib. It is unique

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 wrote: > > 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 when I first instal

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 wrote: > > 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 good extent, depen

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 t

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 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 in five minutes a

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 pl

[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 throu

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

2011-06-14 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] #+LaTe

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

2011-06-14 Thread Alan E. Davis
> Hi Nick and Alan, > > On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:00:11 -0400 > Nick Dokos wrote: > > > suvayu ali wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Alan E. Davis > > > wrote: > > > > (I would > > > > like to use the \footnotesiz

[O] Seeking advice on timeline project

2012-07-20 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am reconstructing events during over 40 years of my life. I have a capture template as follows, that isn't working out well: ("t" "Timeline " entry (file+headline "Timeline.org" "Timeline Incoming ") "* %^{Salient Event} %? Captured: %U" :prepend t :unnarrowed t)

[O] Capture template --- :empty-lines 1 results in error

2012-08-14 Thread Alan E. Davis
This may be a bug? I have this template in my list of templates, to open the file with my templates, so I could edit it: ("i" "Edit ~/org/capture-templates.2.el" plain (file "~/org/capture-templates.2.el") "" :empty-lines 1 :unnarrowed t) I started to get an error when running this templa

[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 "c

Re: [O] Emacs/Org-mode configs spread over multiple accounts/machines (was: Variable settings in .emacs VS cross device portability.)

2012-02-02 Thread Alan E. Davis
My setup, while far from ideal, is working pretty well. It does require a modicum of manual oversight. I have a directory, ~/WorkBench , in which all of my going work is located. Dozens of subdirectories including every project I have worked on or am working on, with PDFs, etc. In ~/WorkBench/o

Re: [O] Emacs/Org-mode configs spread over multiple accounts/machines (was: Variable settings in .emacs VS cross device portability.)

2012-02-02 Thread Alan E. Davis
By the way, all of these are called from .emacs.el . Another point, I have elected not to byte-compile the loaded elisp files in ~/WorkBench/Emacs , so they will load ok on multiple versions of emacs. On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > My setup, while far from ideal,

Re: [O] Agenda TODO sorting by date

2012-03-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am definitely not a programmer, and for sure not the one who could guide you on writing a sort function. HOWEVER, emacs has a really nice facility for doing so, if you decide you want to try that. I had to write a program to alphabetize a lexical list in Chuukese, in an arbitrary order other th

[O] Push a dependent TODO item on top of a depending one

2012-03-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
It just occurred to me to try to implement a method of pushing a TODO item on top of another, in the manner of a Stack. The item on top of the stack is a task upon which performance of some other task depends. I need to call someone, so I have a task that appears on my agenda, to call him. Howe

[O] Mail composed using emacs --- saving a copy in an org file.

2012-03-15 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am partial to just opening a mail buffer and writing email in Emacs. Just that. However, it would be great to save a copy in an org file. An emacs FAQ suggests sending a BCC or FCC to oneself. What I want is a copy stored in an org-mode subtree, with a convenient headline indicating the name o

Re: [O] problems with LaTex/BibTex

2012-03-30 Thread Alan E. Davis
I would have a use for this. I am curious, though... Suppose I use this as a standard init-file declaration for org-latex-to-pdf-process . Does that mean that bibtex will always be run, every time, during the generation of PDFs via LaTex export? Alan On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Julian Bur

[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 two

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

2009-02-27 Thread Alan E. Davis
Regarding the synchronizing of directories on two or more machines, using a USB Stick. Further questions after a bit of experimentation. I am currently keeping two workstations up to date via a USB flash drive, and have had, variously, both good and bad luck. Here are some questions: 1. I under

[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 ins

[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 ne

[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 Willi

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

2009-03-01 Thread Alan E. Davis
red, since my function is really 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 wrote: > Some time ago, the idea of an instant reference card was bantered about on > the list. I presented a file called org-help.o

Re: [Orgmode] org-annotation mode version 0.4

2009-03-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
also be happier with the result. Thank you again, Alan On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > Daniel: > > A personal thank you for the new version of org-annotation-helper. It > worked perfectly, out of the box. I'm still MINIMALLY bothered by the > unf

[Orgmode] printing pdf of agenda buffer: two issues

2009-03-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
Maybe I have missed something about the use of this new feature. And also other attempts to print have failed. So I am posing two questions in this post (hopefully related). They may well be due to my setup. 1. When I attempt to write a pdf file of a buffer of TODO items as collected by C-c a t

[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 t

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 r

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 wrote: > > I guess I was just fishing to see if someone had > implemented something like a "make a noise property" with a sleep

[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 t

[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 d

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 muc

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 given

Re: [Orgmode] a small remember suggestion

2009-03-24 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 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, adding both

[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 us

[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 cus

[Orgmode] coloration of faces in pdfs from saving an agenda buffer

2009-05-14 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have posted on this problem several weeks ago: when I save an agenda buffer with the brilliant C-u C-x C-w method (naming a file .pdf), I have not been able to produce a pdf that is readable unless the foreground color is dark. When exporting a pdf from an org-mode buffer, the text is normally b

[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 for immediate help. ... l.110 \begin{ite

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

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. ___ Emac

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Sourceforge community award

2009-06-13 Thread Alan E. Davis
I feel compelled to add my 0.02$ to this discussion. I wrote the following down as answers to the two questions posed by the Sourceforge representative. I am not a developer, but a semi-knowledgable user. Org-mode has truly changed the way I do everything. The following points represent all of

[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 #+LATE

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