Re: [Orgmode] A MindMap export would be awesome

2009-07-08 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Tassilo Horn writes: Hello Tassilo: > Hah, great! Now please tell me that Freemind is scriptable, so that > an export from org to svg mindmap is just a fingertip away. It looks like it is possible with Freemind 0.9: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Scripting Cheers, Charles --

Re: [Orgmode] A MindMap export would be awesome

2009-07-08 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Jul 8, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Tassilo Horn wrote: Bastien writes: Hi Bastien, Hah, great! Now please tell me that Freemind is scriptable, so that an export from org to svg mindmap is just a fingertip away. Good to know - maybe a tutorial on this would be of interest to many people here?

Re: [Orgmode] A MindMap export would be awesome

2009-07-08 Thread Tassilo Horn
Bastien writes: Hi Bastien, >> Hah, great! Now please tell me that Freemind is scriptable, so that >> an export from org to svg mindmap is just a fingertip away. > > Good to know - maybe a tutorial on this would be of interest to many > people here? Not pushing you, of course... :) I added so

Re: [Orgmode] A MindMap export would be awesome

2009-07-07 Thread Bastien
Tassilo Horn writes: > Hah, great! Now please tell me that Freemind is scriptable, so that an > export from org to svg mindmap is just a fingertip away. Good to know - maybe a tutorial on this would be of interest to many people here? Not pushing you, of course... :) -- Bastien __

Re: [Orgmode] A MindMap export would be awesome

2009-07-07 Thread Tassilo Horn
Charles Philip Chan writes: Hi Charles, >> Noted, thanks. But since I want to hand out the mindmaps to others, >> I would prefer a portable format like SVG or PDF. > > There is a svg export plugin for freemind. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemind/files/ Hah, great! Now please tell me

Re: [Orgmode] A MindMap export would be awesome

2009-07-07 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Tassilo Horn writes: > Noted, thanks. But since I want to hand out the mindmaps to others, I > would prefer a portable format like SVG or PDF. There is a svg export plugin for freemind. http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemind/files/ Charles -- "It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus

Re: [Orgmode] A MindMap export would be awesome

2009-07-07 Thread Tassilo Horn
Charles Philip Chan writes: Hi Charles, >> I'm just preparing a practice lecture for tomorrow, and when doing >> something like that, using mindmaps helps me to structure the whole >> thing. >> ... >> Did anyone think of an exporter for that? > > org-mode can export to freemind with a contrib

Re: [Orgmode] A MindMap export would be awesome

2009-07-07 Thread Tassilo Horn
Eric S Fraga writes: Hi Eric, >> Maybe there a special LaTeX styles for that. Google came up with >> something called PGF/TikZ. Or maybe there are generators for >> creating SVG mindmaps, I don't know... > > Possibly graphviz could be used? Yes, especially the twopi layout seems well-suited f

Re: [Orgmode] A MindMap export would be awesome

2009-07-07 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Tassilo Horn writes: > I'm just preparing a practice lecture for tomorrow, and when doing > something like that, using mindmaps helps me to structure the whole > thing. > ... > Did anyone think of an exporter for that? org-mode can export to freemind with a contrib package. Take a look at org-

Re: [Orgmode] A MindMap export would be awesome

2009-07-07 Thread Eric S Fraga
At Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:33:45 +0200, Tassilo Horn wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm just preparing a practice lecture for tomorrow, and when doing > something like that, using mindmaps helps me to structure the whole > thing. Of course, outlined text *is* a textual representation for a > mindmap, but often

[Orgmode] A MindMap export would be awesome

2009-07-07 Thread Tassilo Horn
Hi, I'm just preparing a practice lecture for tomorrow, and when doing something like that, using mindmaps helps me to structure the whole thing. Of course, outlined text *is* a textual representation for a mindmap, but often some visual representation is more explanatory, especially when handing