Re: [Orgmode] Problem with autoloads

2009-03-03 Thread Mike Newman
I would check that you are running the same version of org on both -
call the function org-version.

On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:39:52 -0800
Mark Elston  wrote:

> I have two machines:  WinXP and Vista (64 bit) with Emacs 22.3
> on both.
> 
> Both are configured the same in terms of libraries and, specifically,
> the org-mode configuration is the same.
> 
> However, the (require 'org-install) on the Vista system doesn't
> seem to work the same as it does on WinXP.  When I type C-c a
> on the XP system I get the usual menu asking for the additional
> key for the type of agenda I want.
> 
> On the Vista system, though, when I type C-c a I don't get this
> menu and it provides the agenda in the default format (which isn't
> really as useful to me).
> 
> I do a C-h f on org-agenda and it tells me (on the Vista system)
> that it is an interactive  Lisp function in 'org.el'.
> 
> Apparently, even with the (require ...) in my .emacs file I am
> not loading 'org-install.
> 
> Any ideas why this would be?
> 
> Mark
> 
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Re: [Orgmode] Handling org-file agenda dependenncies?

2009-03-27 Thread Mike Newman
When you use the standard commands to add/removes files from the
agenda, it will write a definition for the variable org-agenda-files to
the custom section of your .emacs file.

If you want to deal with trees of files, you might be better off
removing the variable from the custom section, defining it
yourself and updating it manually.

I would find it useful to be able to switch to an "*Org Agenda Files
Buffer*", edit this and save it to update - but I don't suppose anyone 
would think it worth the effort of coding.

As an interesting aside - if in Dired I rename a file that I am
currently visiting, the buffer's name will be changed automatically.
However, org-agenda-files will not be updated in this case.

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:31:19 +0100
Eraldo Helal  wrote:

> I have projects with non-text files.
> Many of them having sub-,subsub-projects etc. (nested)
> Therefore I made directories for them using the project
> name. / name>//etc
> Each having it's own <(sub-)project name>.org file in it.
> 
> My question:
> 
> How can I add|remove a whole project from the agenda?
> 
> e.g. If I remove project1.org file from the agenda...
>  /project1/subprojectX.org would still be in there!
> 
> Or is there a way to assign and then set a group of org.files to
> inactive(=remove from agenda)?
> 
> Any other suggestions|methods for solving this problem?


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Re: [Orgmode] shifting table cells

2009-04-01 Thread Mike Newman
kill-rectangle (C-x r k) and yank-rectangle (C-x r y) can be very
useful for this sort of thing.

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:35:03 +0100
 wrote:

> Hi,
>is there any way to shift cells up/down within a column while
> leaving remaining columns intact. If not could someone point me in
> the right direction to any org-functions I could use to help me
> implement this?
> 


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Re: [Orgmode] Re: Patch to fix two bugs in HTML/DocBook exporters

2009-04-09 Thread Mike Newman


On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:33:55 +0200
Carsten Dominik  wrote:

> I really don't see why.  Under what circumstances would you
> want to mix list types like this, without at least on little
> transition sentence between the lists?  I cannot remember any
> occasion when I would have wanted this to be possible.
> 

I can't resist a challenge like that!

I often write quick lists summarising the advantages and disadvantages
of a proposed solution to a problem, eg:

 + It is faster
 - It is more expensive
 + It uses less memory
 - It is a horrible colour

But I don't think it is worth trying to support something like this.


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Re: [Orgmode] Extremely weird key bug in emacs

2009-04-18 Thread Mike Newman
Can you let us know which operating system you are using, what version
of emacs and what version of org-mode, please?

This information would help us to make sensible suggestions.

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:11:30 -0300
Krishan Rajaratnam  wrote:

> 
> Hi, I just installed org mode for emacs and found out that every key
> uses C-c. The problem
> 
> is my emacs thinks C-c is C-g, but the funny thing is the ctrl button
> works fine with other shortcuts
> 
> in emacs and the c buttons works fine in emacs when used in writing
> code. But when used together emacs
> 
> considers it equivalent to C-g, I reinstalled emacs many times and
> use Ctrl-c to copy and paste 
> 
> things from the clipboard in windows all the time, so I am completely
> clueless as to what caused this problem or what to do about it. If
> anyone knows anything about this issue I would really appreicate it
> if you could
> 
> let me know how to fix it, thanks for your time.
> 
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Re: [Orgmode] copying headline structure without contents

2009-04-23 Thread Mike Newman
I think this is handled easily enough with existing org-mode + emacs
facilities

1) Mark the sub-tree (C-c @ is useful)
2) Copy and yank where you need it
3) Mark the new copy (or activate transient mark mode)
4) M-C-% (query-replace-regexp in region) to eliminate all the lines not 
starting with "*"

A suitable regexp should be "^[^*].*^J" where the ^J (linefeed) is entered by 
C-q C-j.

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:47:02 +0200
Rainer Stengele  wrote:

> hi all,
> 
> is it possible to clone all visible or marked headlines without
> contents?
> 
> Example:
> 
> 
> Having these lines:
> 
> * header1
>   - contents
> ** header11
>- contents
> * header2
>   - contents
> ** header21
>- contents
> 
> 
> I'd like to have
> 
> 
> * header1
>   - contents
> ** header11
>- contents
> * header2
>   - contents
> ** header21
>- contents
> * header1
> ** header11
> * header2
> ** header21
> 
> 
> application:
> having written a spec for a job I want to write another
> one for a similar subject with headlines as before but changed
> contents
> 
> 
> Thanks for any thought!
> 
> Rainer
> 
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Re: [Orgmode] Re: Example of thesis in org-mode and LaTeX

2007-12-05 Thread Mike Newman
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 18:48:05 +0530
"Rustom Mody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I downloaded Daniel's thesis and the org original to help me study how
> org mode may be used for writing large structured documents.
> 
> When reading his org file in emacs I get something about some local
> variables (org-export-latex-preamble) not being safe, some others
> (org-export-latex-title-command) being risky and what not. Dont know
> whether this is emacs or org (or Daniel!) complaining and about what.
> 
> [And dont know any Spanish / enough German so cant use the examples
> for anything but studying visual effects]
> 
> I guess of course that its nothing but just wondering whats happening.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Rustom
> 
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Emacs allows you to define local variables in a file, which can be a
very useful feature (for example, as here, to define the latex preamble
on export).  It does however open a potential security hole, probably
allowing the execution of arbitrary elisp.  So when opening a file
that defines a local variable, Emacs warns you.  If you know it's safe
(because you defined it yourself) you can add it to the trusted
list, so you won't get asked every time. 
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Re: [Orgmode] update org mode on aquamacs

2008-07-21 Thread Mike Newman
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:14:24 -0500
"charles snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I am a relatively new emacs user, and have been using org mode on
> aquamacs (10.5 OSX). Even the 'latest' aquamacs has an old 4.x
> version of org mode. I downloaded the latest org mode zip as well as
> the install shell script, but can't figure out where the old org mode
> files are in aquamacs (after exploring the entire aquamacs package
> directory), and therefore can't install the latest org mode version.
> 
> Anyone have 'unbelievably_basic-mode' instructions on how to
> accomplish this?
> 
> TIA
> 
> clsnyder

I know very little about Macs, but hope the following helps:

C-h f org-mode (gets you function help for org-mode)
then click on the highlighted "org" link to open org.el.

You file that this buffer is visiting e.g. by C-x C-b

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[Orgmode] File extensions

2008-07-28 Thread Mike Newman
I have successfully used Org mode for about 2 years, all ways using .txt
as a file extension (in part, so that my colleagues would not be
frightened from looking at what are essentially plain text files).

This has caused very few problems.  However, I note that in
org-iswitchb the list of buffers presented is based on the file
extension ".org".  Would it make sense (or be possible) to list those
buffers that are in org-mode (regardless of file extension)?

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Re: [Orgmode] how to wrap headings

2008-10-22 Thread Mike Newman
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:23:54 +0200
"Rich E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just have a simple question:  how can I wrap the headings so they
> don't go off the visual window?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rich
> 
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A simple approach that will work for all lines is
'toggle-truncate-lines'.

If you are using a recent development version of Emacs, you can try
'visual-line-mode', which will also affect all lines in the file.

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Re: [Orgmode] A few new user questions, Custom agenda views, calendar in frame, and Hyperlinks on win32

2008-11-20 Thread Mike Newman
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:06:51 -0500
"Jonathan Arkell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Finally, I am having a problem with some external links, whenever I
> try to visit a file like \\AWindowsServer\path\to\file  I get the
> error message “eval: ShellExecute failed: The system cannot find the
> file specified. ^M”  Is it easy to fix this?  What is going on?

Does using // rather than \\ work better?

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Re: [Orgmode] Windows and emacs

2009-01-08 Thread Mike Newman
On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:41:36 +0100
Raimund Kohl-Füchsle  wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> it may happen that I have to switch to Windows XP and since I have no
> idea how XP works (up to this point in time I only ran Linux
> machines) I thought to ask since I want to stick with org-mode: How
> do I get org-mode and emacs run best with XP?  As far as I know there
> are at least two ways to get emacs running; one is to simply download
> emacs, two is downloading cygwin; if it is cygwin that I have to go
> with then which emacs?  If I saw it right there are several
> choices ... ummm ... any hints on that?
> 
> Thanx in advance
> 
> ray
> 
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What I use is the EmacsW32
(http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html).  This gives you recent
snapshot of Emacs 23 (I use the patched version).

I also recommend installing cygwin, and doing a little bit of work in
getting emacs to use it (not difficult, but I can't remember the
details).  If you know linux, you are sure to find it useful.  I don't
suggest using a cygwin build of emacs (I think the native build will be
easier to use).

One advantage of having cygwin installed is that you can then use "make"
to build you a new version of org.

Hope this is helpful.
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Re: [Orgmode] footnote questions

2009-01-25 Thread Mike Newman
I suggest that each footnote is placed in a  with class footnote,
with all footnotes nested inside a  with class footnotes.

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On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:46:02 +0100
Carsten Dominik  wrote:

> 
> On Jan 24, 2009, at 6:38 AM, Samuel Wales wrote:
> 
> > Minor questions:
> >
> > Is there a way to have footnotes that have more than one paragraph?
> > For me, they are not recognized as footnotes.
> 
> How would I format a multi-paragraph footnote in HTML?
> 
> Right now we have:
> 
> (div id="footnotes">
> Footnotes: 
> 
> 
> 1
> Footnote text here
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I guess if someone had CSS to style footnote paragraphs specially,
> inserting  somewhere inside the footnote text would
> not do the right thing.
> 
> Sebastian, do you have an idea here?
> 
> - Carsten
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > Also, is there a way to make footnote references work when they
> > start in column 0?  Reformatting a paragraph sometimes puts them
> > there for me.
> >
> > Latest org release with (setf org-footnote-section nil).
> >
> > Thanks.
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Re: [Orgmode] A much simpler way of handling dependent tasks

2009-01-27 Thread Mike Newman


On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:16:17 -0400
John Wiegley  wrote:

> I've been wanting a simple method for managing dependent tasks for  
> some time now, and only now did it occur to me that I could just  
> implement a much simpler method using your current blocking mechanism.
> 
> The attached file, confusingly named org-depends.el, implements the  
> following scheme:
> 
>   1. Any TODO which has incomplete child TODOs is blocked.
> 
>   2. If a parent TODO has the ORDERED property, it's children must be
>  completed in order.  Undone siblings block later siblings.
> 
>   3. Blocked items are greyed out in the agenda list.
> 
> John
> 

This sounds like a sensible approach that would cover most my needs for
dependencies between TODOs
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Re: [Orgmode] Changing variable defaults.

2009-02-02 Thread Mike Newman

> (setq org-tags-column -77)

For the past few months, I have been using org-mode in conjunction with
Visual Line mode, a new feature of Emacs 23, and found they work
together well. From the v23 NEWS file:

** Visual Line mode provides support for editing by visual lines.
It turns on word-wrapping in the current buffer, and rebinds C-a, C-e,
and C-k to commands that operate by visual lines instead of logical
lines.  This is a more reliable replacement for longlines-mode.
This can also be turned on using the menu bar, via
Options -> Line Wrapping in this Buffer -> Word Wrap

I think in the long-term many (most) org users will start enabling
this, and there will be requests for tweaks to make the two cooperate
a little better.

One customisation I would recommend for anyone using the two together
would be 

  (setq org-tags-column -75)

Trying to put the tags any further to the right will cause them to wrap
on to the next line.  Perhaps this is not too far from your suggestion
to make it the default in all cases?
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Re: [Orgmode] Prefix arg required for agenda TODO cycle now?

2009-02-04 Thread Mike Newman
I think this is the result of the change in the default value of:
  org-use-fast-todo-selection

I believe that if you customise this the old behaviour will return.

On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:24:51 -0600
Charles Sebold  wrote:

> I'm having trouble finding the specific diff where this would have
> changed, and I'm wondering if I've done this to myself, or if this is
> a bug?
> 
> I jumped this morning from 6.20h (or maybe 6.20i, don't remember now)
> to latest, and I find that, in agenda view, to toggle a TODO task to
> DONE I have to use C-u t instead of just t.  Then, in the org file
> itself, I'm used to using the prefix arg C-u C-c C-t to pull up the
> full list of TODO possibilities, but now that cycles, and just C-c
> C-t pulls up the full list.
> 
> In testing with "emacs -Q" and an org file with just the following in
> it:
> 
> * INBOX test item
> 
> I didn't see this problem, but adding my usual org-todo-keywords:
> 
> (setq org-todo-keywords
>   '((sequence "INBOX(i)" "TICKLER(t!)" "|" "FILE(f@)"
> "CANCELED(k@)") (sequence "TODO" "WAITING" "VERIFY" "|" "DONE"
> "REASSIGNED") (sequence "DAILY(d)" "|" "DONEDLY" "UNSCHEDDLY(D@)")
> (sequence "WEEKLY(e)" "|" "DONEWKLY" "UNSCHEDWKLY(E@)")
> (sequence "MONTHLY(m)" "|" "DONEMNTHLY" "UNSCHEDMNTHLY(M@)")
> (sequence "APPT" "RESCHEDULE(s@)" "|" "APPTPAST"
> "APPTCANCELED(n@)") (sequence "REQUEST(r!)" "REQWAITING(w@/!)"
> "REQVERIFY(v)" "|" "REQCLOSED(c!)" "REQREASSIGNED(a@)")
> (sequence "PROJECT(P!)" "PROJWAITING(W@/!)" "PROJVERIFY(V)"
> "|" "PROJCLOSED(C!)" "PROJREASSIGNED(A@)")
> ))
> 
> ...it changes to the behavior I described above.


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Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-02-04 Thread Mike Newman
Please find below my org related customisation (if it is still of
interest).  I have to admit that I can't remember what some of it does
or why I put it that way.

A few comments might be useful:

  This is my work configuration on Windows XP, using a recent emacs 23
  from emacs w32.  I am set up to use cygwin.  I use a fairly recent
  version of org-mode (never more than about 10 versions behind
  Carsten!)

  I use org-mode with visual line mode and abbreviation mode.
  Formerly, I used it with flyspell mode, but there seemed to be a
  problem with w32 emacs so I have disabled it.

  I have one agenda file per project scattered across a windows file
  system, to accompany the corresponding project.  The larger files
  contain thousands of lines of text - I haven't found a need to
  archive yet.

  I log the date at which I complete tasks, but have no need of the
  time.

  I generally use the global todo list, rather than other agenda
  views, and tend not to schedule tasks explicitly.  To keep this view
  neatly aligned, I use 4 letter words for todo states.

  My company has its own week numbering system (not ISO).  I
  approximate this with (org-agenda-start-on-weekday 6) but it would
  be nice to be able to be able to choose a more general week
  numbering scheme.
  
  All my org files have a .txt extension and set the mode by their
  first line.

  I use 4 levels of priority (going down to D for tasks that I will
  probably never get to).

  I sometimes use html export, primarily as a route to importing into
  a word processor (cut and paste from the browser), but generally
  only on a small part of the org file.

* Customisation

 '(desktop-modes-not-to-save (quote (tags-table-mode org-mode)))
 '(org-agenda-files (quote (LIST OF 8 FILES))
 '(org-agenda-sorting-strategy (quote (time-up priority-down category-keep)))
 '(org-agenda-start-on-weekday 6)
 '(org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists t)
 '(org-export-default-language "en-GB")
 '(org-export-with-drawers nil)
 '(org-footnote-define-inline t)
 '(org-log-done (quote time))
 '(org-log-done-with-time nil)
 '(org-lowest-priority 68)
 '(org-refile-targets (quote ((org-agenda-files :level . 1
 '(org-refile-use-outline-path (quote file))
 '(org-tags-column -75)
 '(safe-local-variable-values (quote ((org-export-html-style .
 " 
html {font-family: sans-serif;}
p {font-weight: normal;}
h1 {color: red;}
h2 {color: black; font-size: 20pt; font-weight: bold;}
h3 {color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold; 
text-decoration: underline;}
h4 {color: black; font-size: 14pt;}
  "

;; Enable org-cycle with outline
(add-hook 'outline-minor-mode-hook
  (lambda ()
(define-key outline-minor-mode-map [(control tab)] 'org-cycle)
(define-key outline-minor-mode-map [(shift tab)]
'org-global-cycle))) (add-hook 'outline-mode-hook
  (lambda ()
(define-key outline-mode-map [(tab)] 'org-cycle)
(define-key outline-mode-map [(shift tab)] 'org-global-cycle)))

;; Org-mode
;; The following lines are copied from the .info file
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org$" . org-mode))
(define-key global-map "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
(define-key global-map "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
(global-set-key "\C-cb" 'org-iswitchb)

;; Setting up remember
(org-remember-insinuate)
(setq org-default-notes-file "~/Documents/Journal/Notes.txt")
(define-key global-map "\C-cr" 'org-remember)

* Infile options

#+SEQ_TODO: TODO WAIT | DONE CANC
#+DRAWERS: DETAILS PROPERTIES
#+OPTIONS:   H:4 num:nil toc:nil \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t f:t *:t TeX:t
LaTeX:nil skip:t
#+TITLE: Journal.txt
#+AUTHOR:Mike Newman
#+EMAIL: x...@xxx.com
#+LANGUAGE:  en-GB
#+TEXT: 

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Re: [Orgmode] Changing variable defaults.

2009-02-04 Thread Mike Newman

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:21:24 +0100
Carsten Dominik  wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> On Feb 3, 2009, at 12:20 AM, Mike Newman wrote:
> 
> >
> >> (setq org-tags-column -77)
> >
> > For the past few months, I have been using org-mode in conjunction  
> > with
> > Visual Line mode, a new feature of Emacs 23, and found they work
> > together well.
> 
> I am a bit surprised that you say this, as Org-mode does overrule
> the special beginning/end of line commands that visual line mode
> normally installs.  Have you not missed these?
> 
> Have you been playing with org-special-ctrl-a/e, and
> org-special-ctrl-k, and what do you think should the
> behavior be in this case, if visual-line-mode is active?
> 
> Thanks for pointing out that mode, it look interesting and seems
> to be a lot more usable with Org than longlines.el
> 
> - Carsten
> 

I had noticed the change in behaviour of C-a and C-e, but I hadn't
attempted to get round it (except by only using them to move to the
start and end of the paragraph).

In fact, with paragraph-oriented text, moving to the beginning or end
of the line is relatively unimportant, so I haven't really missed the
capability.

I'm not really clear on the details of their standard behaviour in
org-mode now, but I guess something that might make sense (to a user)
would be for them to behave in an org-specific way when they are
somewhere where this makes sense, but then to fall back to their
previous definition otherwise.

I'm unclear on exactly how fixed the behaviour of visual line mode is
- it hasn't yet appeared in an emacs release, so I guess it might
still change.

In the longer term, I imagine people will start wanting support for
variable width fonts (visual line mode at last makes these usable in
emacs)!!

Thanks again for all your efforts.

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[Orgmode] Bug in org-indent-item

2007-03-15 Thread Mike Newman
The information for org-shiftmetaleft and org-shiftmetaright does not
mention the calls to org-outdent-item and org-indent-item.

org-indent-item doesn't seem to work for list items at the end of a
file (a file not ending in ^J).

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[Orgmode] Feature in org-move-item-down

2007-03-16 Thread Mike Newman
It appears org-move-item-down treats blank lines as part of the
preceding list item (whereas I use them to separate a list from
subsequent text).

So given

- a test
- b test
- c test

test

with point on line b, M-x org-move-item-down gives
- a test
- c test

- b test
test

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Re: [Orgmode] Feature in org-move-item-down

2007-03-18 Thread Mike Newman
The manual (section 2.8) says

"Indentation also determines the end of a list item.  It ends before the next 
line that is indented like the bullet/number, or less."

I think that a blank line has 0 indentation, therefore (by this logic)
it should end a list item.  Clearly a blank line cannot start a list
item, so it must end a list.

I think the question is whether list items can contain blank lines. 
This may be established practice, but it was not what I was expecting.

Thanks

Mike

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:11:08 +0100
Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On Mar 17, 2007, at 4:15, Mike Newman wrote:
> 
> > It appears org-move-item-down treats blank lines as part of the
> > preceding list item (whereas I use them to separate a list from
> > subsequent text).
> >
> > So given
> >
> > - a test
> > - b test
> > - c test
> >
> > test
> >
> > with point on line b, M-x org-move-item-down gives
> > - a test
> > - c test
> >
> > - b test
> > test
> 
> 
> The problem with is this is following.  Suppose I made the item end 
> before the
> empty line, as you suggest.  Then consider the following case:
> 
> - a test
> 
> - b test
> 
> - c test
> 
> If I now move "b" up, I get
> 
> - b test
> - a test
> 
> 
> - c test
> 
> I don't think there is a good solution to this problem - if you
> know one, I would be interested.
> 
> - Carsten
> 


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Re: [Orgmode] Request: org as minor mode?

2007-04-03 Thread Mike Newman
On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:46:21 +0200
Jost Burkardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> I'd really like to be able to manage my task directly within my source
> files (and have the great tagging available!!!). An other use-case
> would be managing task within in a emacs-muse file, like planner-mode
> does.
> 

One approach to this could be use one of the ways of having multiple
major modes in a single file - see
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MultipleModes.

Even if Org mode could pick up tasks in source files - would this scale
well with a large number of files?
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Re: [Orgmode] Org to PDF webpage

2007-08-16 Thread Mike Newman
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:41:33 +0200
Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> i just set up a webpage that let you upload an Org file and receive a
> nice PDF document back.  It is based on Org 5.04 and org-export-latex
> 0.22 (and pdflatex).
> 
> I guess nobody needs this in this list, but maybe you can tell your
> non-LaTeX friends. A good occasion to learn LaTeX. Or Org. Or Emacs :)
> 
>   http://www.legito.net/org-to-pdf.py
> 
> Enjoy,
> 
Worked well for me, but for some reason came back with the name Bastien
Guerry under the title.

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[Orgmode] Html export suggestion (use of )

2007-10-05 Thread Mike Newman
I had wondered if there was any value in wrapping the html export in
  sections to match the structure of the org file.

For example, rather than:

1 Heading
Text

1.1 Subheading
More text

1.2 Further subheading
Still more text


export:

1 Heading
Text

1.1 Subheading
More text

1.2 Further subheading
Still more text




Aside from the minor drawback of making the file a bit bigger, it
should have no negative effects, but it would have at least two
benefits:

1) It would be very easy (via CSS) to apply styles to match the
structure of the file e.g. indenting lower level sections.  See
attachment for example.

2) It should make it easier, with xslt to manipulate the exported files
e.g. to extract specific sections
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Title: temp





1 Heading
Text

1.1 Subheading
More text

1.2 Further subheading
Still more text



1 Heading
Text

1.1 Subheading
More text

1.2 Further subheading
Still more text




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Re: [Orgmode] Re: Html export suggestion (use of )

2007-10-08 Thread Mike Newman
On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:25:00 +0300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I have not yet used this feature, but I am working with html/css all
> day, so here is my opinion:
> 
> 1. You shouldn't use more divs than you need to, and you don't need
> them.
> 
Why (I'm sure there's a good reason)?

> 2. You shouldn't use divs for presentation's sake. Why not make each
> subsection a different class or sumthin.
> 
Why?

> 3. I think the way it's handled right now is better than your example.
> 
> Cheers,
> Cezar
> 
> 
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Re: [Orgmode] Html export suggestion (use of )

2007-10-15 Thread Mike Newman
Here is a more refined suggestion, with links to examples

Mike

   in HTML Export
  


Table of Contents
=
1 Proposal
2 Implementation
3 Motivation
3.1 Applying styles via CSS
3.2 Applying transformations via XSLT
4 Drawbacks
5 Additional suggestion
6 Options
7 Examples
8 Acknowledgements

1 Proposal
~~
I propose that on html export, sections of the document should be
wrapped in   markers, to reflect the outline structure
given by org mode.

2 Implementation

I think this should be quite simple to implement.  Prior to each
heading, open  elements would be closed (if the heading level
was higher than the previous heading level), and a new  element
would be opened.

3 Motivation

There are at least two reasons why this might be useful:

3.1 Applying styles via CSS
===
This allows, for example:

  - Styles to be applied in a way that makes it clear how the sections
are nested, e.g. by indentation, drawing a border or setting a
background

  - Styles could be used to display content in a way that is not
possible without them.  Links to examples are given below.

I imagine that in time, a variety of style sheets for displaying the
resulting html could be shared, saving users the trouble of developing
their own.

3.2 Applying transformations via XSLT
=
Selecting  sections or subsections of a file should be much easier if
they correspond to a single XML element.

4 Drawbacks
~~~
- Increased file size (but only very slightly)
- Possibly increased time for browser to render page?  I am not aware
  of a problem

5 Additional suggestion
~~~
It would also be useful to wrap the Table of Contents  and the final
part of the HTML file (Author's name and date) in their own .

6 Options
~
Attributes can be added to a , most importantly "class" and
"id".  Adding the class attribute (as suggested by Cezar) would allow
different sections of the file to be formatted in different ways.

As a first step, I would suggest adding the  without a class or
id.

It was suggested that adding  to exported HTML should be
controlled by an option.  I would see it as fairly harmless, even to
those who would not use the feature, so in my opinion the option would
be an unnecessary complication.

7 Examples
~~
I have added  elements as proposed here to an HTML file.  This
can be viewed, rendered with different style sheets at:
 - [http://www.newmanfamily.me.uk/orgmode/Example-defaultstyle.html]
 - [http://www.newmanfamily.me.uk/orgmode/Example-sectioned.html]
 - [http://www.newmanfamily.me.uk/orgmode/Example-floated.html]

It should be interesting to see how they behave as the width of the
browser window changes - particularly with the last example. (Only
tested in Firefox).

8 Acknowledgements
~~
I would like to thank Cezar and William Henney for their suggestions.
(And Carsten, of course).


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Re: [Orgmode] Org-mode version 5.13

2007-10-22 Thread Mike Newman
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:30:29 +0100
Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > - The table of context is wrapped into a div with a class
> >   "table-of-contents".
> 
> This should be "id", not "class", since there is only one instance of
> the table of contents - fixed in the proposed patch.

I think that class is the right thing here.  We are saying that this is
a "table-of-contents" rather than this is the "table-of-contents".  I
believe at present there is no mechanism to give more than one table of
contents, but someone, sometime might want tables of contents for
individual sections of a document.

> 
> > - The outline structure is embedded in  elements with
> >   classes "outline-1", "outline-2" etc.
> 
> Classes are ok here.
> 

This appears to be logical, but is in fact (I think) redundant.  We can
specify the style to applied at different levels without using
class attributes.  For example:

   div { background-color: lightgray}
   div > div { background-color: peachpuff}
   div > div > div { background-color: green}
   
shows how different styling can be applied to level 1, level 2 and
level 3 (and above).

I think this has advantages (e.g. inheritance of unspecified
characteristics from higher levels) and leaves the class attribute free
to represent styling that is independent of the structure.

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Re: [Orgmode] Org-mode version 5.13

2007-10-26 Thread Mike Newman
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:12:36 +0500
"Dmitri Minaev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> Wouldn't classes make formatting more flexible? If I understand
> correctly, Mike Newman's proposal will require all formatting to be
> hardcoded into org.el? I'd rather keep it in a separate .css file, one
> for the whole site...
> 
> 
That is certainly not my intention.  I think keeping style information
in a separate file is a good idea.

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[Orgmode] Bug in html-export: unclosed

2007-10-26 Thread Mike Newman
In Org-mode 5.13d, not all the  elements get closed.  See
the attached .org and .html.

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Title: testdiv



testdiv

Table of Contents

1 H1

1.1 H1.1
1.2 H1.2


2 H2




1 H1



1.1 H1.1



1.2 H1.2




2 H2


 Author: 


 Date: 2007/10/26 06:56:31 PM




testdiv.org
Description: Binary data
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[Orgmode] Non-existent file in agenda

2007-10-26 Thread Mike Newman
If a file in the agenda list is *temporarily* unavailable, I would like
to be able to ignore this one file and proceed with the other files.
At present, the options are Abort or Remove from the agenda list.

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Re: [Orgmode] Bug in html-export: unclosed

2007-10-27 Thread Mike Newman
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:44:21 +0200
Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hopefully fixed in 5.13h, please check again.
> 
> - Carsten
> 
Seems to work now.  Thanks.

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