Re: [O] transcluding some org-elements in multiple places

2017-01-06 Thread Matt Price
makes sense, will try to figure that out in the next couple of days. On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:19 PM, John Kitchin wrote: > It would be easy to have it export the plain text of the transcluded > heading. to export the actual heading, I would setup a preprocessing hook > that replaces the link wit

Re: [O] transcluding some org-elements in multiple places

2017-01-05 Thread John Kitchin
It would be easy to have it export the plain text of the transcluded heading. to export the actual heading, I would setup a preprocessing hook that replaces the link with the content it points to. John --- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Che

Re: [O] transcluding some org-elements in multiple places

2017-01-05 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 7:30 PM, John Kitchin wrote: > I didn't test it with other files, and it does not seem to work with > them. For some reason (org-open-link-from-string path) does not seem to > actually open the file at path. I am not sure why, since the follow code > works just fine. > > He

Re: [O] transcluding some org-elements in multiple places

2017-01-05 Thread John Kitchin
I played with it a bit. Here is a link that displays file links as overlays. Clicking on them jump to the source, and C-click will toggle the overlay. It works ok, but I didn't test it a lot. Say you have a table named like this in a file. #+name: test | 555 | 66 | | te | tef | | 555 |

Re: [O] transcluding some org-elements in multiple places

2017-01-05 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 11:55 AM, John Kitchin wrote: > > David Talmage writes: > > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > > >> On Friday, 9 Dec 2016 at 15:29, John Kitchin wrote: > >> > Hi all, > >> > > >> > I have an idea for how I could transclude "copies" or links to > >

Re: [O] transcluding some org-elements in multiple places

2016-12-16 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Matt Price wrote: > Replying only to say that I think both the name and the idea are brilliant. > > In fact am in the middle of a very hectic time trying to write stuff up and if I had transclusion available right now it would be BRILLIANT. Instead resorting to Sl

Re: [O] transcluding some org-elements in multiple places

2016-12-15 Thread Matt Price
Replying only to say that I think both the name and the idea are brilliant.

Re: [O] transcluding some org-elements in multiple places

2016-12-14 Thread John Kitchin
David Talmage writes: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > >> On Friday, 9 Dec 2016 at 15:29, John Kitchin wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I have an idea for how I could transclude "copies" or links to >> >> [...] >> >> > Any thoughts? Do you see any potential issues? >> >> Po

Re: [O] transcluding some org-elements in multiple places

2016-12-14 Thread David Talmage
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Friday, 9 Dec 2016 at 15:29, John Kitchin wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have an idea for how I could transclude "copies" or links to > > [...] > > > Any thoughts? Do you see any potential issues? > > Potentially very interesting and useful

Re: [O] transcluding some org-elements in multiple places

2016-12-09 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Friday, 9 Dec 2016 at 15:29, John Kitchin wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an idea for how I could transclude "copies" or links to [...] > Any thoughts? Do you see any potential issues? Potentially very interesting and useful idea. Some thoughts/issues: - not sure about the name but that's just

[O] transcluding some org-elements in multiple places

2016-12-09 Thread John Kitchin
Hi all, I have an idea for how I could transclude "copies" or links to org-elements in multiple places and keep them up to date. A prototypical example of this is I have a set of org-contacts in one place, and I want to create a new list of people for a committee in a new place made of "copies" of