On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:54:37 +0200, Christian Egli <christian.e...@sbs.ch> wrote: > > Eric S Fraga <ucec...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > > > For the recent project I had to prepare, I did have to generate a > > GANTT chart. I tried using TJ2 via org but found the current > > implementation not suitable for my way of working. > > What are the problems you encountered?
The main problem (not really a problem per se) is the need to define sub-headings for tasks and so on for the exporter to find the necessary project information. This makes sense for a running project, say, but not for the type of document I was preparing (a project proposal where the level of project workplan detail is much lower). I found it much easier, for the latter, to use a simple table. Of course, for a running project where you wish to keep track of how far each task has progressed and allocations of resources etc, my simple approach won't be of much use and a table is probably not the ideal representation in any case. A secondary problem (also not a problem) was the (current) lack of babel integration for TJ. I have become addicted to having all my code etc within org. I can no longer write anything without at least one #+begin_src ... directive in my documents! In terms of org->tj export, there were some issues (can't remember the details now unfortunately) with default interpretation of values for times and so on, none of which appeared to be insurmountable but I didn't spend much time on this aspect due to the above points. In the end, I didn't need the power of tj so found it quicker to roll up my own! > > Instead of using TJ, either 2 or 3, I simply created my own chart > > using tikz in latex. > > Sweet hack! And looks quite nice too. thanks! I should add that my longer term goal is to support some simple critical path analysis using the table approach I have defined. This would help me in some of the lectures on project management I give to my students. I'm currently stuck on how to do indirect references in org tables: how to get the contents of an entry chosen by a value in a different entry (e.g. what is the max of the end times of the dependencies of the current task). I've not asked any questions on the list yet because I think most of my answers will come from learning emacs Calc properly (so much to learn, so little time, but it sure is fun ;-). Thanks, eric
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