[Orgmode] *.org files showing up as "exec" files in Snow Leopard

2010-09-23 Thread Graham Smith
I'm not sure how important this is, but having just upgraded to Snow Leopard, all my *.org files are now black with a green "exec" in the corner and trying to open them is giving a message that they is no application t view them and would I like to open a hex editor. More of a Mac problem than an

Re: [Orgmode] Re: *.org files showing up as "exec" files in Snow Leopard

2010-09-24 Thread Graham Smith
Erik > Do they have their executable bits set? Not sure how I tell, googling suggests that an "x" in the permissions says its an executable and it has rwx in the permissions (nothing else) but I see this is the same as other files that aren't labelled as exec. Indeed every file doc, excel etc is

Re: [Orgmode] General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion

2010-10-26 Thread Graham Smith
Marvin, Although, not exactly answering your question, I have just started using https://docq.com/ and http://a.nnotate.com/ You can compile as PDF from OrgMode and upload to either of these sites. Send a web link to the reviewer, who can then annotate and comment on your document. You still

Re: [Orgmode] General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion

2010-10-26 Thread Graham Smith
Marvin > This looks very interesting, and would definitely save time - no more > reading into word and reformatting. > How much does docq cost ? I'm using the free version of docq, which has some limitations in terms of number of uploads etc. Paid versions are $7 and $13 depending on requiremen

Re: [Orgmode] General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion

2010-10-27 Thread Graham Smith
Tomas > > As an alternative to https://docq.com/ or http://a.nnotate.com/, you can > have a look at OnDoc http://logand.com/sw/ondoc/index.html which I wrote > to annotate PDF documents.  Being an enthusiastic org-mode user, I would > welcome any ideas that could make it worthwhile and easier to u

[Orgmode] Creating files for a Kindle

2010-11-27 Thread Graham Smith
Does anyone by chance use orgmode to create files for a Kindle? If you do I would appreciate some helpful hints or ideas on how you approach it. The Kindle file format is apparently modified HTML, but the guidance I have found seems to revolve around creating files in MSWord and then converting t

Re: [Orgmode] Creating files for a Kindle

2010-11-28 Thread Graham Smith
Jeff, and Alan, Initial play around with has allowed me to find that: Firstly, the Kindle doesn't recognise the HTML extension and HTML files copied onto the Kindle simply don't appear as being available for viewing. If you change the extension to txt, the file appears and can be seen as an HTML

Re: [Orgmode] Creating files for a Kindle

2010-11-28 Thread Graham Smith
Jeff, > > Ah, that's a bit disappointing. Do you have DX? My manual says that > HTML is directly supported, with loads of other formats, so maybe it's > a DX only feature? > It's not the DX (I don't think the DX is available in the UK, it certainly isn't on the Amazon UK site) BUT on the US site

Re: [Orgmode] Creating files for a Kindle

2010-11-28 Thread Graham Smith
Mark, On 28 November 2010 18:08, wrote: > One thing that works for me is this: export a file or subtree to html, > then send to [myna...@kindle.free.com. Then, when my Kindle is > connected to the internet, it will automatically download Amazon's > conversion of my html file. This happens pret

Re: [Orgmode] Creating files for a Kindle

2010-11-28 Thread Graham Smith
Mark > The cost is nothing if you send it via email to your @free.kindle.com > address. This is different from whispernet (which uses 3g, correct?). > Perhaps you would need to turn off the 3g option? I don't know because > I have the Kindle without 3g. > It seems you are correct, I am still

Re: [Orgmode] Creating files for a Kindle

2010-11-28 Thread Graham Smith
Just to follow this up, the kindle service to convert the HTML seems to work well, and I have now grasped how the "free" service works. Even if you have the 3g version of the Kindle, if you send it to the free email address for conversion it isn't delivered until you are connected to the Internet

[Orgmode] Latex export to A4

2009-11-23 Thread Graham Smith
As I understand it, orgmode defaults to A4, but I seem to be exporting to PDF via Latex in letter. And I have never had a problem before, but I am now exporting to PDF and when viewed the bottom of the page is cut off. Its strange because usually the viewer adjusts to the page size, but Acrobat

[Orgmode] text ignoring page breaks (was Latex export to A4)

2009-11-23 Thread Graham Smith
Well this seems to be nothing to do with the page size as other files are working fine. I have now opened a new file and typed everything in from scratch and still getting the same problem. I have looked at the tex file and can't see anything obvious, but as a PDF the text runs over the page numb

Re: [Orgmode] text ignoring page breaks (was Latex export to A4)

2009-11-23 Thread Graham Smith
Ed, > I think the problem is that you have no paragraphs, just headers.  I hacked > your file to have some random junk in a few of the sections and it turned > out a lot better. Indeed, I have just done the same, added a bit of text and it is working fine. I guess I haven't had a file of all hea

[Orgmode] Babel - simple getting started problem

2009-12-06 Thread Graham Smith
I know I must be missing the obvious here, but why can't I get babel+R to calculate a mean. See below Many thanks, Graham * test #+srcname:trial #+begin_src R x<-c(4,5,6,7,8,9) #+end_src #+resname: trial | 4 | | 5 | | 6 | | 7 | | 8 | | 9 | * meantest #+begin_src R mean(trial) #+end_src #+res

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Babel - simple getting started problem

2009-12-07 Thread Graham Smith
Seb > You must pass somehow the variable you want to work with. > > See http://eschulte.github.com/org-babel/org-babel.org.html and its example 1. Thanks, I will look at the link, I thought I had done this by assigning a name to the output #+srcname:trial and then trying to run the command on t

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Babel - simple getting started problem

2009-12-07 Thread Graham Smith
Seb, I am obviously not following this at all. I am assuming you need to keep all the code under the same heading so OrgMode knows which table is being referred to. But if I put the cursor in the table and use C-u C-c C-c I get a message in the mini buffer, that the formulas are being re-applied,

Re: [Orgmode] Babel - simple getting started problem

2009-12-07 Thread Graham Smith
Dan > Here's a version of your example that works. Thanks, this all works for me now. In addition to the tutorial on the worg, is there a manual somewhere, because the var option isn't mentioned in the tutorial. And judging by the trouble I am having, I'm going to need a lot more help to get t

Re: [Orgmode] Babel - simple getting started problem

2009-12-07 Thread Graham Smith
Dan > The Worg pages is the current documentation, but please just ask when > you have any problems -- include the string [babel] in the subject line > so people can filter it out. > > One suggestion: are you looking at the HTML version of the tutorial? If > so, how about getting hold of the sourc

[Orgmode] Babel - importing a data file- missing header row

2009-12-08 Thread Graham Smith
I need a bit of help importing a data file into orgmode/babel. The import doesn't seem to know about having a header row #+srcname:woodland #+begin_src R read.table("/home/graham/Dropbox/College/BY4001/WoodlandData/BY4001WoodlandDataFinal.txt",header=TRUE) #+end_src #+resname: woodland | "V1.1"

Re: [babel] [Orgmode] Babel - importing a data file- missing header row

2009-12-08 Thread Graham Smith
Dan, Using session gets everything working as I expect it to, at least so far it does. I will work through the other aspects you suggest but for now its looking good. > Could you post the first few lines of your data file, or a small example > with the same format, as I don't completely understan

[Orgmode] [babel] R - variable names in summary

2009-12-08 Thread Graham Smith
Dan I have started a new thread so it has a propel babel string. I have also created a small file for testing. The colnames t works as expected, but how do I then see the variable names when using the summary command, and str doesn't work at all (source block produced no output) . They appear OK

Re: [Orgmode] Re: [babel] R - variable names in summary

2009-12-09 Thread Graham Smith
Austin > This is help from the R side, not from the org-babel side.  If these > suggestions don't work, one of the babelers will have to step in. > > Many functions that print output to the interactive buffer will not > produce that output when called outside of the interactive buffer.  For > thes

Re: [Orgmode] [babel] R - variable names in summary

2009-12-09 Thread Graham Smith
Dan, >> The colnames t works as expected, but how do I then see the variable >> names when using the summary command, > > Just use :colnames t again for that. Thanks again, I almost had this solved but in #+begin_src R :session babeltest :colnames t I hadn't left a space between the end of babe

Re: [Orgmode] [babel] R - variable names in summary

2009-12-09 Thread Graham Smith
Dan, That's great, I am beginning to grasp how this works >> But I would never have figured out the :results output  method, however. > > OK, it would be really helpful if you could let us know how we should > improve the documentation of it. I'm not sure if I'm the one to ask about the document

Re: [Orgmode] [babel] R - variable names in summary

2009-12-09 Thread Graham Smith
Dan >> Not being a programmer, I find the terminology and phrasing of these > > I wouldn't classify someone who analyses their data with R as a > non-programmer. Mmmm, I can see why you would say this, but I don't really program in R, but have collected a library of R code over the years which I

Re: [Orgmode] [babel] R - variable names in summary

2009-12-09 Thread Graham Smith
Tom, Thanks for your comments. > When you find an example that fills a gap you perceive in the documentation, > please pass that along, too.  The more examples the better. Now that I have basics working, I will try and use it for something specific over the next few weeks and certainly feedback

Re: [Orgmode] Re: [babel] R - variable names in summary

2009-12-09 Thread Graham Smith
Austin > I don't know whether this will end up fitting into your setup, but > there's an emacs function `ess-execute-screen-options' that does what > Dan just suggested on a per-session basis taking the width of the > current buffer into account.  Even if it doesn't help with org-bable, it > makes

[Orgmode] [babel] changing size of R graphics in pdf output

2009-12-12 Thread Graham Smith
I don't seem able to change the size of graphics in the PDF output. #+begin_src R :file z.pdf :width 20 :height 20 :R-dev-args bg="olivedrab", fg="hotpink" plot(matrix(rnorm(100), ncol=2), type="l") #+end_src Using this example from an earlier post, regardless of how I change the width and

Re: [Orgmode] [babel] changing size of R graphics in pdf output

2009-12-12 Thread Graham Smith
Dan/Torsten Thanks, It seems to be a orgemode/babel/Latex issue. If I view the pdf from within Emacs by double clicking on the link, the size changes as expected, but if I compile the whole document as a pdf the plots appear as small. The error in the log is ! LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size

Re: [Orgmode] [babel] changing size of R graphics in pdf output

2009-12-13 Thread Graham Smith
IGNORE everything in my last email. The only relevant bit is > \includegraphics[width=10em]{BoxplotSummary.pdf} > \includegraphics[width=10em]{z.pdf} > > So it seems to be ignoring the change in height and width commands for > z.pdf, and defaulting to 10em. If I then edit the [width=10em] bit in

Re: [Orgmode] [babel] changing size of R graphics in pdf output

2009-12-13 Thread Graham Smith
A little progress here #+srcname:Boxplots Summary #+begin_src R :session BirdData :file BoxplotSummary.pdf :exports both boxplot(Wingcrd,Tarsus,Head,Wt,names=c("Wingcrd","Tarsus","Head","Wt")) #+end_src #+resname: Boxplots #+ATTR_LaTeX: width=10cm [[file:BoxplotSummary.pdf]] This gives me a

Re: [Orgmode] [babel] changing size of R graphics in pdf output

2009-12-13 Thread Graham Smith
This works #+srcname:Boxplots Summary #+begin_src R :session BirdData :file BoxplotSummary.pdf :exports none boxplot(Wingcrd,Tarsus,Head,Wt,names=c("Wingcrd","Tarsus","Head","Wt")) #+end_src #+resname: Boxplots #+CAPTION:Trial boxplots with babel #+LABEL: fig:trial boxplots #+ATTR_LaTe

Re: [Orgmode] [babel] changing size of R graphics in pdf output

2009-12-13 Thread Graham Smith
OK, This was all to do with the ordering of the latex code Below works, includes the R code, but only one plot of the expected size. #+srcname:Boxplots Summary #+begin_src R :session BirdData :file BoxplotSummary.pdf :exports both boxplot(Wingcrd,Tarsus,Head,Wt,names=c("Wingcrd","Tarsus","Head

Re: [Orgmode] [babel] changing size of R graphics in pdf output

2009-12-15 Thread Graham Smith
Dan, > Before running the export, do you have a link to the image *already* in > your org buffer? > > If no, then you should just get one copy of the image. > > If yes, then, if the link is positioned in such a way that it will get > replaced by the output (no intervening lines between end of sour

[Orgmode] Which Emacs on Ubuntu

2010-02-12 Thread Graham Smith
I have had to do a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10, and on going to re-install Emacs, I see lots of choices. As I primarily use Emacs to run Orgmode and I find the list of Emacs options rather confusing, can anyone here suggest which is the best option to install. The key choices seem to be Emacs 22

Re: [Orgmode] Which Emacs on Ubuntu

2010-02-12 Thread Graham Smith
Eric, > Emacs 23 without a doubt!  I cannot see any reason for using version > 22 unless you have to. Thanks, I was tempted to go for 23, but wasn't sure. Graham ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs

Re: [Orgmode] Which Emacs on Ubuntu

2010-02-13 Thread Graham Smith
Ian, > I use the emacs-snapshot ppa from > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+archive/ppa. I had some problems with > the Ubuntu Emacs 23 package (menu drawing, etc). However, these have > probably been fixed by now. > > The snapshot is a bleeding edge version of Emacs, so you can expect bug > f

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Which Emacs on Ubuntu

2010-02-13 Thread Graham Smith
Ben, > Right. So, people who installed ‘emacs’ several years ago would have > Emacs 22, and then later, without changing their selection, the same > people got Emacs 23 when the Ubuntu package maintainers decided it was > ready. Thanks In fact 'emacs' says its 23 but it actually installs 22. I

[Orgmode] [babel] cannot code to execute since changing to emacs starter kit

2010-03-07 Thread Graham Smith
I guess I am being stupid here, but I have changed my set up to using Eric's (Schulte) start up kit for emacs and now when I try to use C-c C-c to execute a code block I get an error C-c C-c can do nothing useful at this location As far as I can see form the files that came with the start up kit,

Re: [Orgmode] [babel] cannot code to execute since changing to emacs starter kit

2010-03-07 Thread Graham Smith
Tom > Your example is R code. > > I have this is in my starter-kit: > > *** ON Org-babel R setup > #+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle yes >  (require 'org-babel-R)         ;; requires R and ess-mode >  (add-to-list 'org-babel-noweb-error-langs "R") > #+end_src > > Perhaps when you changed the setup yo

[Orgmode] selective export

2010-03-07 Thread Graham Smith
Using babel I have the data used for the analysis (in R) under a top level heading just called data. I want to keep this in the org file but not in the compiled pdf. I have had a look at the selective export in the manual, but could do with a bit more step by step instructions on how to exclude th

[Orgmode] [babel] captions and figure size on export

2010-03-07 Thread Graham Smith
I have the following code beside each other in an orgmode/babel file creating two boxplots. When exported the first boxplot remains the default size and has no caption or figure number, while the second is 10cm across, and has a caption and figuer number(Fig1). Could someone have a look at my cod

Re: [Orgmode] selective export

2010-03-07 Thread Graham Smith
Thanks to you both, so easy when you know how. The manual makes sense as well now. Graham ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode

[Orgmode] Re: [babel] captions and figure size on export

2010-03-07 Thread Graham Smith
Graham Smith gmail.com> writes: To follow this up, it seems that looking at the tex file that none of the latex code is being exported \subsection{Boxplots} \label{sec-2.1} \begin{verbatim} boxplot(daf$Flower~daf$YEAR) \end{verbatim} \includegraphics[width=10em]{FloweringBoxplot.

Re: [Orgmode] Re: [babel] captions and figure size on export

2010-03-08 Thread Graham Smith
Mmmm, this seems to be something to do with the placement of the code in orgmode as I now realise that although fig 1 isn't resized or captioned, the fig 1 caption iand size commands are attached to fig 2. and the fig2 commands attached to fig 3 etc. I will try and re-arrange these until they wor

Re: [Orgmode] Re: [babel] captions and figure size on export

2010-03-08 Thread Graham Smith
This is driving me mad here: I have removed all the fig and size code and replaced it with onky one line that should be resizing the first graph(FloweringBoxplot.pdf). However, its resizing the second graph (NonFloweringBoxplot/pdf) and not affecting the first graph. This works on other files, so

Re: [Orgmode] Re: [babel] captions and figure size on export

2010-03-09 Thread Graham Smith
Dan > As a workaround, is it necessary for you to execute the block on export? > Or could you instead use :exports code? I.e. before export, execute the > block manually and ensure that the #+ATTR_LaTeX and #+results lines are > arranged in the correct way. Many thanks for this, I'm glad it can b

[Orgmode] [babel] multiple result outputs from function

2010-03-16 Thread Graham Smith
Below is a function that I am trying to run in orgmode/babel. It seems to run OK, but instead of printing out three values, its only printing the final result. Once again, i would appreciate some help with what I am missing. Thanks, Graham #+srcname: CI_function #+begin_src R :session daf sum

Re: [Orgmode] [babel] multiple result outputs from function

2010-03-16 Thread Graham Smith
Dan > Use ':results output' to get the printed output. The default mode > is ':results value' which returns the value of the last expression in > the block. Thanks, that's great. At least I managed to sort out my other two problems today on my own !! Graham ___

Re: [Orgmode] [babel] multiple result outputs from function

2010-03-16 Thread Graham Smith
Erik > So, add ":results output" to your source header block. Dan beat you to it, but.. > list(xbar, lower.ci, upper.ci) This is useful, but the output isn't exactly as I expected #+results: SumFlowering2005 : [[1]] : [1] 1.51 : : [[2]] : [1] 1.048065 : : [[3]] : [1] 1.978602 is there a w

Re: [Orgmode] [babel] multiple result outputs from function

2010-03-16 Thread Graham Smith
Dan, >> is there a way of replacing the [1] [2] and [3] with the object names > > I think you meant replacing the [[1]], [[2]], [[3]]. That would be > > list(myname1=xbar, myname2=lower.ci, myname3=upper.ci) > >> (I know this is really an R question) Thanks again :-) Graham ___

Re: [Orgmode] Org babel R Help

2010-03-21 Thread Graham Smith
Joseph/Dan >>> 2) Width/Height exports for R graphics output. Do they work? >>> >>> I've tried a lot of combinations of :width and :height as exports, and >>> they don't seem to work at all. I've tried small numbers (1-10), large >>> numbers (100-2000) and numbers prefixed by "cm" with no luck. >>

Re: [Orgmode] Org babel R Help

2010-03-21 Thread Graham Smith
Dan > So I believe we do understand the situation. The question is how do we > improve it. First the facts: > As for improvements, it is tempting to think that > > 1. org-babel should automatically insert the ATTR_LaTeX line in >   accordance with :width and :height when creating latex output. >

[Orgmode] Customising title page

2010-04-02 Thread Graham Smith
I would like to customise the title page, which I can do with a series of LATEX_HEADER as below. As I build up the full title page this is going to get a bit tedious and I wondered if there a better way of doing this? Thanks, Graham #+TITLE: #+LATEX_HEADER: \begin{titlepage} #+LATEX_HEADER: \beg

[Orgmode] [babel] "No org-babel-execute function for R!" after update

2010-08-24 Thread Graham Smith
I have been away from emacs/org/babel for a coupe of months and I have just updated the Emacs starter kit for orgmode (http://github.com/eschulte/emacs-starter-kit.git) with the commands : git pull : git submodule update I now get the error "No org-babel-execute function for R!" when I try to

Re: [Orgmode] [babel] "No org-babel-execute function for R!" after update

2010-08-24 Thread Graham Smith
Erik > You need to setup the variable org-babel-do-load-languages > as in the following: > > http://orgmode.org/org.html#Languages So I see, this has obviously changed as it was working without this before. BUT all working now, so thanks. Graham ___ E

Re: [Orgmode] [babel] "No org-babel-execute function for R!" after update

2010-08-24 Thread Graham Smith
Erik, > Great, see > http://eschulte.github.com/babel-dev/DONE-document-configuration-changes-for-Babel-integration.html > > for a description of why/when this done. Thanks, very useful. Graham ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to

[Orgmode] [babel] babel creating corrupt pdf and png

2010-08-25 Thread Graham Smith
PDFs created by Babel are giving a file corrupt message when trying to open them and a format not recognised message if I try pngs, Same files created directly from R are fine. This is with Ubuntu 10.04 and Org-mode version 6.36trans (release_7.01h.94.g25ac Example of code I am using is below.

Re: [Orgmode] [babel] babel creating corrupt pdf and png

2010-08-26 Thread Graham Smith
Eriic, Thanks, > I'd suggest looking at the R session ("bats" in your case) to see what > errors if any are being thrown by R during execution of the boxplot > command. Will do, but sidetracked somewhere else now. Its strange because some are now being produced fine, and other not. They are all

[Orgmode] .emacs works on Mac but not on Ubuntu

2009-06-16 Thread Graham Smith
I have gone back to using Ubuntu and in the past I used to copy any updates of the .emacs file from Ubuntu to the Mac. So I expected to be able to copy the .emacs from the Mac to the newly installed Ubuntu. But it isn't loading the current version of Org-mode, I am getting 4.67 where I should be g

Re: [Orgmode] In response to: .emacs works on Mac but not on Ubuntu

2009-06-16 Thread Graham Smith
Jere, > What may be happening is that Ubuntu has a default version of org-mode > pre-installed in the primary load path directories, so that is what is being > picked up and not your latest version.  To check that, type > > dpkg --list | grep org > > and see if org mode was installed by the packag

Re: [Orgmode] In response to: .emacs works on Mac but not on Ubuntu

2009-06-17 Thread Graham Smith
Thanks everyone >> > picked up and not your latest version.  To check that, type >> > >> > dpkg --list | grep org >> > >> > and see if org mode was installed by the package manager.  If so, just do a >> > normal remove and see if that doesn't take care of it. > Jere may be right: I recall previou

Re: [Orgmode] In response to: .emacs works on Mac but not on Ubuntu

2009-06-17 Thread Graham Smith
Ian Thanks, it just worked with 8.01 which is why I am struggling now. > I am using Ubuntu Jaunty with a setup almost identical to yours and mine > "Just works". Are you certain that: > >> (setq load-path (cons "~/EmacsAddins/OrgMode/lisp" load-path)) >> (setq load-path (cons "~/EmacsAddins/Org

Re: [Orgmode] In response to: .emacs works on Mac but not on Ubuntu

2009-06-17 Thread Graham Smith
I really don't understand why, but I have written out the paths in full and it seems to work now (setq load-path (cons "/home/graham/EmacsAddIns/OrgMode/lisp" load-path)) (setq load-path (cons "/home/graham/EmacsAddIns/OrgMode/contrib/lisp" load-path)) Can anyone see any obvious differences betwe

Re: [Orgmode] In response to: .emacs works on Mac but not on Ubuntu

2009-06-17 Thread Graham Smith
Ian, > Doh, finger/brain communication mismatch. I get that as well :-) >It should be: > > sudo apt-get purge org-mode As you will have seen now, its working, but I'm still puzzled as to why. Graham ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Re

[Orgmode] Orgmode for research information management

2009-06-23 Thread Graham Smith
I have used several information management tools over the years, but I am trying to use Emacs/orgmode more. There are many examples of people using Orgmode for time management type tasks, but not a lot on information management. I would be interested in any insights into how people use orgmode fo

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Orgmode for research information management

2009-06-23 Thread Graham Smith
Chris, Thanks, but I have a couple of more questions if that's OK > For me, it works great because it is so easy to use as an outliner. Do you use tags for particular linked topics or do you just rely on the outline and drop related information into the same level of the outline > However, I st

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Orgmode for research information management

2009-06-23 Thread Graham Smith
Chris > So far I have been using just the outlining capabilities, but tags > sounds like a great idea -- I think I'll start doing that too. :)  Until > now, though, I mostly find the information that I am looking for with > isearch. > >>> However, I still keep all my references in a separate >>> d

[Orgmode] Re: Orgmode for research information management

2009-06-23 Thread Graham Smith
Matt > Org-mode is very well suited to this purpose. I like to think of > org-mode as an outliner with the functionality of a database. Each > outline heading/subheading is a node to which all sorts of metadata can > be attached. Thus, notes can be as free-form or as structured as the > project r

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Orgmode for research information management

2009-06-23 Thread Graham Smith
Eric > It's this flexibility that encourages one to simply jump in and use it > and the benefits then quickly make you wonder how you got along > without it! Strangely, when you are used to a more structured approach this makes it difficult to start. Graham

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Orgmode for research information management

2009-06-23 Thread Graham Smith
Sebastian, Thanks for this. > I'd propose to start by partitioning _what_ you actually need to store > on your disk. > > This is what I do: Actually, I already do something similar to you now as a general PIM, I was really looking for some tips specifically related to management of information

Re: [Orgmode] Orgmode for research information management

2009-06-25 Thread Graham Smith
Shrutarshi 2009/6/24 Shrutarshi Basu : > I just started using orgmode today to organize the papers that I'm > collecting for my own research. The way I work is a bit complicated, but I > like it. I have all my PDFs in a single directory and my notes in a separate > directory. That sounds really i

[Orgmode] Positioning Latex diagram on PDF output

2009-08-08 Thread Graham Smith
I am experimenting with a TiKZ/pgf mindmap in orgmode. Although it looks as if it should fit on the (A4) PDF page, it is offset to the right and cut off, even though there seems to plenty of room on the page to left of the diagram. The code is just the example from the manual, which I have modifi

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Positioning Latex diagram on PDF output

2009-08-08 Thread Graham Smith
leo Thanks, this was useful, but... > %% > \documentclass{article} > \usepackage{tikz} > \usetikzlibrary{mindmap} > \usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview} > \PreviewEnvironment{tikzpicture} > \setlength\PreviewBorder{1pt} Based on this I have altered the headers

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Positioning Latex diagram on PDF output

2009-08-09 Thread Graham Smith
: > On 2009-08-08 22:14 +0100, Graham Smith wrote: >> Based on this I have altered the headers in orgmode to >> >> #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{tikz} >> #+LATEX_HEADER: \usetikzlibrary{mindmap,trees} >> #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview} >&

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Positioning Latex diagram on PDF output

2009-08-10 Thread Graham Smith
leo 2009/8/9 Leo : > On 2009-08-09 08:33 +0100, Graham Smith wrote: >> Leo, >> >> Thanks again, it seems the answer lies in Latex, rather than OrgMode, >> so I will work  away at that. >> >> having said that, the commands you gave me are extremely useful

Re: [Orgmode] how to draw picture in org-mode ? Does it support tikz/pgf ?

2009-08-14 Thread Graham Smith
Something I, as a comparative beginner can answer :-) > how to draw picture in org-mode ? Does it support tikz/pgf ? Yes, I found it worked fine for me. I had a silly problem with page margins (searchng the forum for tikz/pgf will find my recent posts), that was my fault but other than that the

[Orgmode] help with modifying a bit of code in .emacs

2007-12-13 Thread Graham Smith
I have been using the set up provided by John Wiegley on a Mac and have tried to to use it with Emacs32 wbut with some problems as the custom-set-variables command seemed to badly interact with the Emacs32w custom-set-variables. I have been trying to rewrite the code to avoid the custom-set-variab

Re: [Orgmode] help with modifying a bit of code in .emacs

2007-12-14 Thread Graham Smith
nto other bits that didn't work. But the backtrace info is useful to have. Thanks, Graham On 14/12/2007, William Henney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Graham > > On Dec 13, 2007 1:11 PM, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been using the set

Re: [Orgmode] help with modifying a bit of code in .emacs

2007-12-14 Thread Graham Smith
TODO entries: ") Which I think is the same as you suggest. And thanks for the explanations, these were useful. Graham On 14/12/2007, Chris Leyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 13, 2007 2:11 PM, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been trying to

[Orgmode] AquaEmacs launch error Symbol's value as variable is void: org-agenda-mode-map

2008-08-08 Thread Graham Smith
I hav just upgraded to org-mode 6.06b with Aquaemacs 1.4. I did this by copying the new files into my existing orgmode directory where the prefeences.el file points. But launching emacs gives the following error: "An error has occurred while loading `~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/Preferen

[Orgmode] font lock mode can't get to work

2008-09-25 Thread Graham Smith
I am using emacs/org mode 6.07b on linux (ubuntu Hardy) and am having a problem with the font lock mode. adding -*- mode: org; -*- to the file itself works fine, but simply loading a test.org file doesn't activate org mode. I have tried commenting out and back in different options in .emacs, but

[Orgmode] Re: font lock mode can't get to work

2008-09-25 Thread Graham Smith
>> ;; The following lines are always needed. Choose your own keys. >> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org\\'" . org-mode)) > > This line looks wrong. What's the extra \\' for after .org? > > I have the following: > > (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(org\\|org_archive\\)$" . org-mode)) >

Re: [Orgmode] Re: font lock mode can't get to work

2008-09-25 Thread Graham Smith
2008/9/25 Sullivan, Gregory (US SSA) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think the "\\'" after ".org" is to match the end of the filename. > > From emacs info section "Regexp Backslash", > > `\'' > matches the empty string, but only at the end of the string or > buffer (or its accessible portion) bein

[Orgmode] .emacs won't load Hohn Wiegleys script

2008-10-19 Thread Graham Smith
I have copied John Wiegley's script for task management into my .emacs file, but get an error: An error has occurred while loading `/home/graham/.emacs': Symbol's value as variable is void: To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the cause of the error in your initializati

Re: [Orgmode] .emacs won't load Hohn Wiegleys script

2008-10-19 Thread Graham Smith
Carsten > The text contains special non-ascii characters as leading spaces in many > places, in my Emacs 23 this shows immediately. I don't know from where you > copied it, directly from the webpage? You need to remove all initial > whitespace in all lines from John, ad the problem will likely go

[Orgmode] Org-mode and ESS

2008-11-11 Thread Graham Smith
Is any one using Org-mode with ESS. ESS seems to need a file with a *.R name to work, but it would be really useful to use Org-mode features to keep notes of comments and code, before sending to R, and of course to copy results back into an Org-Mode file from R. As a search here and a google ha

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org-mode and ESS

2008-11-11 Thread Graham Smith
Detlef, Ah thanks, I should probably worked that out myself. > if you have ess loaded and you are working on a file test.org: > > * test > ls() > > and you have an R process running in another buffer, then > you can i.e. put the cursor on the line with ls() in test.org > and execute M-x ess-eval

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org-mode and ESS

2008-11-12 Thread Graham Smith
Austin > In my local git repo of the org sources I have a pretty nice setup for > using R or S inside org-mode. I did see the original posts on this, and was interested in what you were doing, but its a bit beyond me at the moment while I am still trying to grasp how Emacs/org works. At the mome

[Orgmode] Writing in Org Mode - line wrap and tables

2008-11-22 Thread Graham Smith
I am really enjoying Org Mode / Emacs but find the line wrap issue a bit irritating and wondering if I am missing an obvious solution. When I am just writing I use longlines mode, which is fine, but I also use a lot of tables, and the tables feature is great, but tables wrap unusably when longline

Re: [Orgmode] Writing in Org Mode - line wrap and tables

2008-11-22 Thread Graham Smith
Eric > Have you tried `auto-fill-mode'? I have now :-) Thanks this seems to do the job Graham ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-org

[Orgmode] Clearing highlighting after a tag search

2008-11-23 Thread Graham Smith
If I use C+c \ to search for a tag, it highlights the todo entries which have that tag. BUT how do I then clear the highlighting. Maybe its some generic Emacs command, becausue I can't find it in the org manual, so would appreciate some help. Thanks, Graham _

[Orgmode] Re: Clearing highlighting after a tag search

2008-11-23 Thread Graham Smith
That was quick !! > C-c C-c clears it. Many thanks, Graham ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode

[Orgmode] Inline images in exported HTML

2009-01-12 Thread Graham Smith
I am exporting to HTML with a lnk to a pdf with instant opening in Firefox on a Mac. Originally, I had a description on the link, and as the manual says, in the browser, I get the description in the browser which opens the pdf when I click on it. But I want the image to appear without clicking on

[Orgmode] Re: Inline images in exported HTML

2009-01-12 Thread Graham Smith
Bernt, > I was under the impression that only graphic files (PNG/JPG, etc) were > inlined - I didn't think inlining a PDF was possible. Ah that would explain it then, maybe I need to go the Latex route, but I was looking for a quick route to get a printed output. Thank, Graham ___

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Inline images in exported HTML

2009-01-14 Thread Graham Smith
Carsten, 2009/1/14 Carsten Dominik : > > On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote: > >> "Graham Smith" writes: >> >>> I am exporting to HTML with a lnk to a pdf with instant opening in >>> Firefox on a Mac. >>> >>>

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Inline images in exported HTML

2009-01-14 Thread Graham Smith
Manish > Saw this wonder a while ago > http://tsdh.wordpress.com/2007/08/22/view-documents-pdfpostscriptdvi-inside-emacs/ > > Who knows someday doc-view.el's facilities can be called by Orgmode to > achieve this. I don't know enough about emacs/Org-mode to comment but it says it is already part o

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Inline images in exported HTML

2009-01-14 Thread Graham Smith
> Emacs23, I think. And I recall watching a video demonstration of > it... it was quite slow. It converts the PDF pages into images for > display. I see, thanks. Graham ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Inline images in exported HTML

2009-01-14 Thread Graham Smith
Austin > > As another option, you might consider svg() from the RSvgDevice > package. SVG images display in some modern web browsers. I didn't know about the SVG device, but it hasn't helped, unless its a firefox setting (which I can't find) PNGs appear inlne as they should, but not SVG (which fr

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