[O] Inverse matching with '/' in agenda view?

2012-04-19 Thread James Harkins
om agenda command every time I want a different set of tags. (Not so interactive.) Any tips? Thanks! James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal.&quo

Re: [O] Inverse matching with '/' in agenda view?

2012-04-19 Thread James Harkins
At Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:16:34 -0400, Bernt Hansen wrote: > / - TAB Docs RET Oh, that's great. I missed that one. Thanks! James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted

[O] Navigating in sparse view from agenda?

2012-04-22 Thread James Harkins
find that item because it isn't visible. I suppose I can enable org-show-siblings by default, but it would be nice if I could reveal only the specific sibling that I want. Thanks, James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "C

Re: [O] Beamer confusion: environments are ignored

2012-04-25 Thread James Harkins
At Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:30:59 +0930, Eric Fraga wrote: > > James Harkins writes: > > > (Sorry for breaking the thread -- I'm using the digest. Come to think > > of it, I was wondering -- how do other digest readers participate in > > discussions without messi

Re: [O] [beamer] When are :BEAMER_envargs: used or ignored?

2012-04-25 Thread James Harkins
half of the documentation I want to contribute to SuperCollider [2]), but I can't help feeling something is missing here. James [1] http://orgmode.org/manual/Beamer-class-export.html#Beamer-class-export [2] http://supercollider.sourceforge.net -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world ja

Re: [O] [beamer] When are :BEAMER_envargs: used or ignored?

2012-04-25 Thread James Harkins
At Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:09:18 +0800, James Harkins wrote: > > Whether it should be a feature request or not is debatable. The syntax > > is, at present, fairly straightforward in that the headline text becomes > > the argument to the environment defined. > > I think "

Re: [O] [beamer] When are :BEAMER_envargs: used or ignored?

2012-04-26 Thread James Harkins
dered favourably and maybe somebody would > take it up and implement it. No promises, however! ... but the elegance of that approach would be debatable, I suppose. James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, S

[O] To-do dependencies per-file or per-subtree?

2012-06-17 Thread James Harkins
Hi, I see that I can set org-enforce-todo-dependencies, but this is a global setting. Is it possible to have one org file with dependencies and another without? Or by subtree? Thanks. hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come

Re: [O] To-do dependencies per-file or per-subtree?

2012-06-17 Thread James Harkins
NOBLOCKING properties to modify/override this > setting in individual subtrees. > > I don't know of a way to set this per file. OK, great! That should be enough for me. These properties do not appear to be documented at present. Or, if they are, the explanation is extremel

Re: [O] Selected export depending on back-end

2014-09-15 Thread James Harkins
Lars Tveito ifi.uio.no> writes: > I am writing a compendium in org, and want to be able to generate slides > from the same org file. > > I'd like to be able to mark some sections for exporting if I'm > generating slides, and for other formats (like LaTeX and HTML) export > everything as normal.

[O] [ox-latex] How to force ALL captions below their referents?

2014-10-02 Thread James Harkins
I'm struggling a bit with caption placement in LaTeX export. In the document I'm working on now, I have: - Image links, exported as floating figures (by inclusion of a caption). ox-latex places the caption at the end of the figure environment, so the caption appears below the image. #+name:

Re: [O] [ox-latex] How to force ALL captions below their referents?

2014-10-03 Thread James Harkins
On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:54:20 +0200 Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > You mean moving `org-latex-table-caption-above' to > `org-latex-caption-above' and making sure every block complies to the > variable? Sorry for the late reply. I wasn't feeling quite well yesterday. Something like that would do it, I

[O] org-habit for multiple arbitrary days in a week

2014-10-12 Thread James Harkins
I have a task that I want to track using org-habit. I've spent about an hour looking through the manual and other sites, but so far the problem remains intractable. With org-habit, it's easy to track something that should be done on one particular day of the week: .+1w. It appears not to be ea

Re: [O] org-habit for multiple arbitrary days in a week

2014-10-13 Thread James Harkins
At Mon, 13 Oct 2014 17:56:04 +0200, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > > ** TODO Update lesson gradesheet > > :Comp: > >SCHEDULED: <2014-10-13 Mon +1w> > >SCHEDULED: <2014-10-17 Fri +1w> > > You can't. This is invalid Org syntax (only one scheduled keyword

[O] Sharing: Agenda skip function to remove future-scheduled items

2014-10-13 Thread James Harkins
I often ask questions, or complain about things (or both at the same time), so it's nice to share something. I was making a block agenda, splitting up tasks by location (loosely inspired by GTD). But I realized that I didn't want to see items that are scheduled for the future, because this is m

Re: [O] Sharing: Agenda skip function to remove future-scheduled items

2014-10-14 Thread James Harkins
Sebastien Vauban writes: > I use the following (tricky) settings, which should do what you have in > mind, if I'm not mistaken: > > #+begin_src emacs-lisp > ;; Don't show scheduled entries in the global `todo' list. > (setq org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled 'future) > > ;; Don't show ent

[O] after-todo-statistics hook for checkboxes

2014-10-15 Thread James Harkins
org-after-todo-statistics-hook allows you to do something to a node after its statistics cookie got updated. Unfortunately, it does this only for TODO subheadings and it doesn't work with checkboxes. Use case: Grading assignments. Each assignment is a subheading. Each student's work for that as

Re: [O] after-todo-statistics hook for checkboxes

2014-10-15 Thread James Harkins
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 19:08:31 +0800 James Harkins wrote: > org-after-todo-statistics-hook allows you to do something to a node after its > statistics cookie got updated. Unfortunately, it does this only for TODO > subheadings and it doesn't work with checkboxes. > (snip) >

Re: [O] after-todo-statistics hook for checkboxes

2014-10-15 Thread James Harkins
On October 15, 2014 9:45:32 PM Nicolas Goaziou wrote: See also "org-checklist.el" in contrib/. Ok, I'll have a look. Not at my computer now. I do think this issue qualifies as a bug (albeit minor). The real behavior deviates from the documentation (in a way that's difficult to justify logi

Re: [O] after-todo-statistics hook for checkboxes

2014-10-16 Thread James Harkins
At Thu, 16 Oct 2014 18:39:46 +0200, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > `org-todo-statistics-hook' is used for TODO (i.e. headlines) and > `org-checkbox-statistics-hook' is used for checkboxes (i.e. lists). > I see no bug here (although they aren't called with the same arguments, > but that's another story).

Re: [O] after-todo-statistics hook for checkboxes

2014-10-17 Thread James Harkins
At Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:22:20 +0200, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > This is because checkboxes (plain lists) are not related to TODO > keywords (headlines). There are TODO statistics cookies and checkbox > statistics cookies. Only the former run a hook once updated. Thanks for clarifying. I hadn't unders

[O] M-S-up/down on plain lists containing text (or multilevel lists)

2014-11-02 Thread James Harkins
In plain lists, if there is indented text underneath a list item, is it considered to "belong to" the list item, or is it just freestanding text? I'm asking because M-S-up/down doesn't take indented text into account. These commands only move the line marked with a list-item indicator ("-" etc.)

Re: [O] M-S-up/down on plain lists containing text (or multilevel lists)

2014-11-02 Thread James Harkins
On November 2, 2014 4:25:53 PM Nicolas Goaziou wrote: Actually, it isn't. This is a feature. Both `M-S-up' and `M-S-down' work line wise and ignore any structure around point. OTOH, `M-up' and `M-down' should do what you want. Ah, OK... It would be a bug if there were no function to move a l

Re: [O] M-S-up/down on plain lists containing text (or multilevel lists)

2014-11-03 Thread James Harkins
Nicolas Goaziou nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes: > Both `M-S-up' and `M-S-down' work line wise and ignore any structure > around point. OTOH, `M-up' and `M-down' should do what you want. BTW the name of the menu item is misleading. C-h C-k M-S-up: ~~ It is bound to ,,. ~~ This is why I thoug

Re: [O] M-S-up/down on plain lists containing text (or multilevel lists)

2014-11-03 Thread James Harkins
At Mon, 03 Nov 2014 13:48:56 +0100, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > James Harkins writes: > > BTW the name of the menu item is misleading. C-h C-k M-S-up: > > > > ~~ > > It is bound to , > Subtree Up>,. > > What improvement are you suggesting then? Up

[O] Hook after handling repeating TODO?

2014-11-04 Thread James Harkins
Is there a hook that runs after a TODO state change triggers a repeat? I have a few weekly tasks that I've set up as habits. These refer to scheduled lessons. I have the idea that it would be pretty cool to include in the habit entry a link pointing to the next lesson. When I mark the habit DONE

Re: [O] Repeated teaching classes and stopping date

2014-11-11 Thread James Harkins
Rasmus gmx.us> writes: > Also check > `org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift'. FWIW, I always create a separate subtree, with a single timestamp, for every class session. Advantages: - Individual status for each session: DONE, POSTPONED or CANCELED. - If a single class in a series needs to be resc

[O] org-mobile-pull leaves a messed-up sparse tree display

2014-11-12 Thread James Harkins
Attached to this e-mail, please find an image of the appearance of one of my org buffers after doing org-mobile-pull. Before the pull, I collapsed all the subtrees (S-TAB once). The pull added some new nodes. The nodes appear to be filed correctly. But, it looks like org is trying to do some ki

[O] Documentation for NOBLOCKING property?

2014-11-22 Thread James Harkins
Just now, I needed to exempt a couple of subtrees from TODO dependency blocking. I found that you can do this by setting a subtree property NOBLOCKING. This option appears to be undocumented (by which I mean, it isn't mentioned in the manual's dependency checking page, and a web search for "orgm

[O] Beamer export, file-link format

2014-11-23 Thread James Harkins
I'm using org + beamer, and I've put in some links like this: \href{media/something.mp3}{Listen: Something} I want "Listen: Something" to appear in another color. LaTeX is steadfastly refusing to do this: all links appear in the normal document font and color. Hyperref is invoked in the preambl

[O] Hidden files from beamer export, not cleaned up by org

2014-12-01 Thread James Harkins
I've just noticed -- after exporting an org file using the beamer backend, two hidden files are left in the directory. They both contain LaTeX code, so I'm quite sure they're coming from the export. .fuse_hidden01c1: ~~ \relax \providecommand\hyper@newdestlabel[2]{} \providecommand\

Re: [O] Hidden files from beamer export, not cleaned up by org

2014-12-02 Thread James Harkins
Nick Dokos gmail.com> writes: > Somewhere but probably not in org - it can't clean up what it does not > know about. What system is this? Does this have anything to do with > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace > > perhaps? That's probably it. I set up my machine to dual

[O] SCHEDULED in a comment line is not ignored by sparse-tree

2014-12-02 Thread James Harkins
This appears to be buggy behavior, but I'm asking here first in case it might already have been fixed. A couple of months ago, I was trying to create a repeating timestamp for two different days of the week. First I tried a diary-sexp, but that wasn't compatible with habits, so I gave that up.

[O] [patch] org-mobile-edit: Fix "addheading" parent-level bug

2013-01-29 Thread James Harkins
an and I just don't understand where org-insert-heading is going wrong. In any case, corruption of the outline structure is reason enough to apply the workaround without waiting for a "real" fix. hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-wor

[O] New exporter, beamer confusion

2013-02-03 Thread James Harkins
xport #+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport #+startup: beamer #+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer #+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [bigger] #+BEAMER_FRAME_LEVEL: 2 #+TITLE: Applied Techniques for Digital Audio \newline Making music by programming #+AUTHOR:H. James Harkins #+DATE: 7 November 2012 #+BEGIN_LaTeX \AtBegin

Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion

2013-02-04 Thread James Harkins
Suvayu Ali gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 12:00:08PM +0800, James Harkins wrote: > > #+OPTIONS: H:10 num:t toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t <:t > > The H:10 is your problem. Since you want 2nd level headlines to be > frames, it should be

Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion

2013-02-04 Thread James Harkins
On Feb 5, 2013 3:51 AM, "Nicolas Goaziou" wrote: > In particular, "All frames children become block environments". So in > your example Third-level is a block environment and Fourth-level is > a block within it. There's no flattening going on (look at the tex file > to convince yourself). Thanks

Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion

2013-02-05 Thread James Harkins
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: > I added a beamer entry to org-e-latex-classes as indicated in > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/61497/focus=61536 > > (again, I > have no idea if the sectioning stuff matters or not, and whether it leads > to problems - improvemen

Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion

2013-02-05 Thread James Harkins
Thanks for all this. I'll look at the new org markup later today. That should help a lot. On Feb 6, 2013 3:03 AM, "Nicolas Goaziou" wrote: > > 3. Strong *emphasis* now renders in red, instead of keeping the text's > > original color and switching to boldface. > > Indeed. Strong emphasis in Beamer

Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion

2013-02-06 Thread James Harkins
On Feb 7, 2013 3:57 AM, "Nicolas Goaziou" wrote: > > Btw, *who* preferred \alert? (Orwell, Politics and the English Language: > > "Never use the passive [voice] where you can use the active.") > > Obviously, me, as the author of the back-end. Org offers only one slot > for "strong emphasis". I had

Re: [O] Bug: org-insert-heading-respect-content inserts at the wrong level if target heading is invisible [7.9.2 (release_7.9.2-883-g6fb36e.dirty @ /home/dlm/share/org-mode.git/lisp/)]

2013-02-11 Thread James Harkins
On Feb 12, 2013 1:31 AM, "Bastien" wrote: > > Hi James, > > James Harkins writes: > > > I'm resending the issue that I reported the other day, now with a > > MCE. > > Sorry for the delay on this -- and thanks for the detailed reports. > > I

Re: [O] org-meta-return

2013-02-22 Thread James Harkins
42 147 gmail.com> writes: > [continues off-topic] >> Have you tried a Dvorak keyboard? > A friend of mine ridicules me for being a QWERTY typist, but I have found no empirical evidence that it is actually superior. At best, it has been > proven, in /some/ studies, to be /slightly/ superior; and

Re: [O] How to make the new exporter open PDF using evince?

2013-02-25 Thread James Harkins
On Feb 25, 2013 2:52 PM, "Nick Dokos" wrote: > I like putting things in ~/.mailcap, but you can season to taste. Ok, that's 2 votes so far for mailcap. I'll try that later. Thanks! hjh

Re: [O] How to make the new exporter open PDF using evince?

2013-02-27 Thread James Harkins
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Martin Marier wrote: > Hi James, > > Here is a third vote for mailcap. I have (only) this in my .mailcap > file: > > application/pdf; okular '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" Just tried it. Mailcap for the win! > PS Cool to see a (notorious) sc user on this list a

[O] New beamer export error with top-level TODOs

2013-03-01 Thread James Harkins
Bug or not? In the *new* beamer exporter, if I have a top level heading with a TODO keyword, LaTeX chokes on the exported .tex file. E.g., ~~ * TODO Quiz review --> \section{\textbf{\textsf{\textsc{TODO}}} Quiz review} byte-code: PDF file ./slides.pdf wasn't produced: [undefined control sequenc

[O] List admin: Plain text attachments appearing in the digest

2013-03-01 Thread James Harkins
Hi, I wonder if there is a way to make the list digest *not* include the entire contents of plaintext attachments? For example, this message attaches an updated org-favtable.el: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/67371 Attaching a code file is fine, of course, but it did present a co

Re: [O] New beamer export error with top-level TODOs

2013-03-01 Thread James Harkins
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > Hello, > > James Harkins writes: > >> In the *new* beamer exporter, if I have a top level heading with a >> TODO keyword, LaTeX chokes on the exported .tex file. > > It should be fixed in master. Could you

Re: [O] List admin: Plain text attachments appearing in the digest

2013-03-02 Thread James Harkins
On Mar 2, 2013 7:13 PM, "Bastien" wrote: > > I suppose the digest could include a link to the attachment, rather > > than replicating the entire file? > > We use mailman -- can you investigate and see if we can configure > mailman to suit your needs? It seems Achim is right. There's no option to

Re: [O] New beamer exporter: top-aligned columns

2013-03-03 Thread James Harkins
On Mar 4, 2013 1:24 AM, "Nicolas Goaziou" wrote: > Try > > :BEAMER_opt: t > > property. Worked perfectly, thanks! Eventually I'll be able to generalize these little tidbits on my own. hjh

[O] URGENT Need help fixing beamer exporting, can someone jump on IRC?

2013-03-05 Thread James Harkins
Hi, sorry to press, but is anyone on the org-mode IRC channel? The new beamer exporter has suddenly gotten borked on my system and I can't restore it. I have class tomorrow morning. This is an emergency. This occurred after updating master to test a fix that Bastien pushed. Recalling advice from

Re: [O] URGENT Need help fixing beamer exporting, can someone jump on IRC?

2013-03-05 Thread James Harkins
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:18 PM, James Harkins wrote: > Hi, sorry to press, but is anyone on the org-mode IRC channel? > > The new beamer exporter has suddenly gotten borked on my system and I > can't restore it. I have class tomorrow morning. This is an emergency. OK, in despe

Re: [O] Org Community

2013-03-10 Thread James Harkins
Scott Randby gmail.com> writes: > However, I am concerned about the future of org. There is one > individual who is poisoning the atmosphere by engaging in unfair and > unfounded name calling that simply should not be included in messages > to this list. Now this person wants to take some of thei

Re: [O] [bug] new beamer exporter always adds default width to graphics

2013-03-13 Thread James Harkins
On Mar 12, 2013 10:38 PM, "Jay Kerns" wrote: > Yes, the same thing happened to me too, and yes, there was a change > recently, and here is a link to the discussion about it: > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/68011 > > I believe you can do the following to get what you were expectin

Re: [O] Bug: org-insert-heading-respect-content inserts at the wrong level if target heading is invisible [7.9.2 (release_7.9.2-883-g6fb36e.dirty @ /home/dlm/share/org-mode.git/lisp/)]

2013-03-13 Thread James Harkins
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:41 AM, Bastien wrote: > There is some obscure issues here... I fixed various things in > `org-insert-heading' in master, but inserting in invisible parts of > the subtree is still unstable. So I went and used the workaround you > suggested (i.e. org-show-subtree) in the m

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-13 Thread James Harkins
Jay Kerns gmail.com> writes: > Yes, I can add people to my SPAM filter (which I did, BTW), but > that action protects only *me*. It does not protect the > community. It also doesn't protect digest readers such as myself. I was quite annoyed by Jambunathan's suggestion that individual spam filt

[O] Visibility cycling bugs when an org file ends with a plain list

2013-04-01 Thread James Harkins
Hi, I don't remember if this was reported or not. I frequently get the following message in the mini-buffer, after trying to expand the last top-level node in a file. The behavior seems to depend on the last node containing a plain list. byte-code: Invalid search bound (wrong side of point) This

Re: [O] Agenda in MobileOrg for Android

2013-04-08 Thread James Harkins
As it happens, one of the lead developers of mobileorg started a thread on the MobileOrg-Android mailing list asking for issues that need to be addressed, and features that are needed, before it's ready for 1.0. For instance, John Hendy said: ~~ Being able to edit is nice, but that doesn't take a

Re: [O] Agenda in MobileOrg for Android

2013-04-08 Thread James Harkins
Marcin Borkowski wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes: > > 2. When I choose the menu and then "Outline", I can see the outline. > > But when I choose menu and then "Agenda", I see nothing but the > > title ("Agenda") and a "plus" button in the upper right corner. > > > > (a) Shouldn't there be an agenda on the

[O] TAB cycling doesn't work from end of line

2013-04-08 Thread James Harkins
I bet this has been asked before and I just didn't see it... anyway, I'm wondering if that was intentional that TAB visibility cycling doesn't do anything if the insertion point is after the ellipses indicating folded content. ** Example header... ^1 ^2 ^3 ^4 If the point is at locatio

[O] Blocking one user while subscribed to the digest

2013-04-19 Thread James Harkins
This is a specific question for Jambunathan K. I am a casual user of org, i.e., I depend heavily on a subset of org's features, but that subset is rather small and does not touch on the most complex org features which are the subject of most of this list's traffic. So, I have subscribed to the dig

[O] Beamer export ignoring org-beamer-environments-extra?

2013-04-19 Thread James Harkins
Hi, I'm trying to use the (new) beamer exporter with Chinese characters. I've installed the CJK package, and I can render a very simple article-class document with Chinese characters, no problem. But I haven't been able to replicate that successful result by exporting an org file to LaTeX/beamer.

Re: [O] Beamer export ignoring org-beamer-environments-extra?

2013-04-19 Thread James Harkins
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 12:25 PM, James Harkins wrote: > The problem may be a general one concerning org-beamer-environments-extra. > > Any portion of the document containing Chinese characters should be > enclosed within a CJK environment. Reading ox-beamer.el, I see that I > ca

Re: [O] Beamer export ignoring org-beamer-environments-extra?

2013-04-20 Thread James Harkins
On Apr 20, 2013 2:34 PM, "Nicolas Goaziou" wrote: > James Harkins writes: > > > The Beamer exporter assumes that environment names will be all lowercase: > > > > ;; Use specified environment. > > (t (downcase env) > > It should now be fixed. Th

[O] [solution] Chinese characters in Beamer export

2013-04-20 Thread James Harkins
FWIW, this is what it took for me to get Chinese characters to export in beamer. (Adding a TODO to write this up for worg.) 1. Use texlive 2012. (The Ubuntu packages for 12.04 date back to 2009. I couldn't get them to work for this.) 2. In the preamble of your org document: #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usep

[O] Buffer-local override of org-latex-title-command?

2013-04-28 Thread James Harkins
Hi, I've decided to write my next research article using org's LaTeX export. The first problem: the journal mandates one column for the title/author heading and the abstract, while the remainder of the text should be in two columns. TeX FAQ recommends the following [1]: \documentclass[twocolumn]

[O] Exporting an article to a (very) specific formatting template

2013-04-29 Thread James Harkins
Actually, let me take a few steps back from my specific question about the title command. There are some other workflow questions that might make that question redundant. This journal (for some reason unknown to me) has designed the publication format in MS Word, and there are some specific requir

Re: [O] Buffer-local override of org-latex-title-command?

2013-04-29 Thread James Harkins
On Apr 29, 2013 8:23 PM, "Thomas S. Dye" wrote: > > James Harkins writes: > > > The problem is that the "org-latex-title-command" variable places > > \maketitle before the \twocolumn[...] bit. I realize I can customize > > the variable and make i

Re: [O] Buffer-local override of org-latex-title-command?

2013-04-29 Thread James Harkins
On Apr 29, 2013 10:08 PM, "Nicolas Goaziou" wrote: > Try: > > #+BIND: org-latex-title-command "" > > This assumes `org-export-allow-bind-keywords' is non-nil. Oh, ok, I thought I'd tried something like that but I guess I didn't get all the moving parts in the right place. Thanks! hjh

Re: [O] Exporting an article to a (very) specific formatting template

2013-04-29 Thread James Harkins
mohamed gmail.com> writes: > I used both aproaches : > - Usually I customize the org options (latex templates) to meet the > requirements of the final document. It is convenient for me to stay in > emacs. For the gray hairs, you do it once and thus you have minor > modifications. > > - But some

Re: [O] Rationale for *text* -> \alert{text} for Beamer export?

2013-05-01 Thread James Harkins
1] Functional AUdio STream language: http://faust.grame.fr/ >From 8ccbc7cad43b520067b8b29d4660fc99587995fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Harkins Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:51:02 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] hjh temp: add customize variable for bold/alert style --- lisp/ox-beamer.el |9 +

Re: [O] Rationale for *text* -> \alert{text} for Beamer export?

2013-05-02 Thread James Harkins
On May 2, 2013 4:20 PM, "Nicolas Goaziou" wrote: > James Harkins writes: > > > That would assume that you can customize the string org uses for > > *bold*, which you can't at present... so maybe my hack has some use > > after all. > > This has a

[O] Worg: Links to parent nodes?

2013-05-02 Thread James Harkins
Apologies if this has been asked already. I just noticed that, e.g., the ox-beamer.html page [1] has no links to its parent nodes. So for fun, I hacked the url to go back up a couple of levels, and that page didn't have any parent links either. It would be very useful to have the standard breadcru

Re: [O] [mobileorg-android] Re: Agenda in MobileOrg for Android

2013-05-12 Thread James Harkins
> OK, so I'm reviving this old thread. > > I tried to set up MobileOrg again and failed completely - again. Sorry > for my post being a bit harsh, but I'm really frustrated with this > situation, especially that I hear people claiming it works for them... For the sake of completion, and so that M

[O] BMCOL column width as absolute?

2013-05-13 Thread James Harkins
Hi, in the new beamer exporter, are there any plans to support an absolute width for columns, rather than a fraction of \textwidth? hjh

Re: [O] BMCOL column width as absolute?

2013-05-15 Thread James Harkins
On May 15, 2013 12:41 AM, "Nicolas Goaziou" wrote: > James Harkins writes: > > > Hi, in the new beamer exporter, are there any plans to support an > > absolute width for columns, rather than a fraction of \textwidth? > > None that I know of, but it could be o

[O] Exporting source code blocks as LaTeX figures

2013-05-17 Thread James Harkins
Couple of questions about exporting LaTeX figures that are neither tables nor images -- specifically, source code blocks using the listings package. 1. Is there any way to use #+CAPTION with a #+BEGIN_figure block, so that the caption will be rendered underneath the text in the figure? It seems (

Re: [O] Exporting source code blocks as LaTeX figures

2013-05-19 Thread James Harkins
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > instead? I.e., why don't you apply caption to src block? You can tweak > the position of the caption with "captionpos" option in listings > environment. Wow, I hadn't thought of that. Actually that works better in a lot of ways. Then the

Re: [O] Exporting source code blocks as LaTeX figures

2013-05-20 Thread James Harkins
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote: >> Then the next problem... I'm going to have some figures that need to >> span two columns. According to [1], I should use \begin{figure*} ... >> \end{figure*}. Is there a way to do that using a special block? (First >> guess, "#+BEGIN_figure*

Re: [O] Exporting source code blocks as LaTeX figures

2013-05-20 Thread James Harkins
On May 20, 2013 4:54 PM, "Nicolas Goaziou" wrote: > > Hello, > > James Harkins writes: > > > The other reference to multicolumn is for table export, and this isn't > > a table either. So I think, as currently designed, :multicolumn simply > > does

[O] How to prevent tabs from turning into spaces in source-code export?

2013-05-30 Thread James Harkins
I have (where is a tab character): #+BEGIN_SRC {} // SuperCollider code here ( r = p.chan.play(Pspawner { |sp| var num, subdiv, ... }); ) #+END_SRC The exported .tex file contains: \begin{lstlisting} // SuperCollider code here ( r = p.chan.play(Pspawner { |sp| var num, subdiv, ... }); ) \end{

[O] Italics + footnote in latex export

2013-06-01 Thread James Harkins
I have: Western notation supports a type of /polyphony/[fn:1] I get: Western notation supports a type of /polyphony/\footnote{ ... blah blah ... } Or, I can have: Western notation supports a type of /polyphony/ [fn:1] And then I get: \emph{polyphony} \footnote{ ... blah blah ...

[O] Beamer handouts, pgfpages, no love

2013-06-17 Thread James Harkins
Hi, Today I was playing around with exporting a beamer presentation for handouts, following the advice online to use pgfpages for saving dead trees. I'm not sure if it's an org problem or a LaTeX problem. Exporting to a presentation is no problem: #+startup: beamer #+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer #+LaTe

Re: [O] Beamer handouts, pgfpages, no love

2013-06-30 Thread James Harkins
On Jun 30, 2013 7:22 PM, "Nicolas Goaziou" wrote: > James Harkins writes: > > > This example does reproduce the issue where the slides are rendered at > > twice their normal size, instead of half. (I installed TexLive 2012 -- > > I'm not using the outdat

[O] Use babel to import table data from OpenDocument spreadsheets?

2013-07-02 Thread James Harkins
Just wondering if anyone out there has some magic code snippets that will automatically bring in data from a LibreOffice spreadsheet during HTML export. I think I could save, by hand, the required worksheets out of the ods file into separate CSVs, and then write an emacs-lisp Babel block to impo

Re: [O] Use babel to import table data from OpenDocument spreadsheets?

2013-07-02 Thread James Harkins
At Tue, 02 Jul 2013 19:49:43 +0530, Jambunathan K wrote: > M-x org-odt-convert RET > > or > > (org-odt-convert ..) Is this valid for .ods, or only .odt? The file is from LibreOffice Calc, not Writer. I made a quick test and got only "failed." From the Messages, I can see it's using a head

Re: [O] Use babel to import table data from OpenDocument spreadsheets?

2013-07-02 Thread James Harkins
At Tue, 02 Jul 2013 20:40:40 +0530, Jambunathan K wrote: > Works here for simple files. > > M-: (org-odt-convert "file.ods" "csv") > > Executing libreoffice4.0 --headless --convert-to csv --outdir > /home/kjambunathan/ /home/kjambunathan/file.ods > convert /home/kjambunathan/file.ods ->

Re: [O] Use babel to import table data from OpenDocument spreadsheets?

2013-07-09 Thread James Harkins
At Wed, 03 Jul 2013 10:35:51 +0800, James Harkins wrote: > Anyway, I'm not convinced that org-odt-convert would meet my needs anyway. It > will have to be a multi-worksheet file, and I'll have to extract just one or > two of the worksheets. The macro might be the way to go. I

Re: [O] Use babel to import table data from OpenDocument spreadsheets?

2013-07-17 Thread James Harkins
At Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:20:25 +0530, Jambunathan K wrote: > James Harkins writes: > > > I found a utility, unoconv[1], which I can persuade to produce a > > tab-separated export of the first worksheet of an ODS document. > > FYI, unoconv is an option provided by `o

Re: [O] Use babel to import table data from OpenDocument spreadsheets?

2013-07-18 Thread James Harkins
At Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:49:16 +0530, Jambunathan K wrote: > 1. Give me a sample worksheet. Attached. > 2. Give me the specific unoconv command that you used for converting the >worksheet. unoconv -f csv -i 9,34,system,1,1/5/2/1/3/1/4/1 html-table.ods Maybe the filename needs a full path, not

Re: [O] Use babel to import table data from OpenDocument spreadsheets?

2013-07-18 Thread James Harkins
At Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:32:44 +0530, Jambunathan K wrote: > I don't want to venture in to Babel. > > I don't want to experiment with unoconv either. I have a non-official > libreoffice installed. Pulling in official unoconv will interfere with > my working installation. Fair enough. > For your

[O] [bug?] org-latex-table-caption-above has no effect

2013-07-23 Thread James Harkins
Not entirely sure if this is a bug or not, but it seems to be a regression. According to [1], the customization variable org-latex-table-caption-above was added to allow table captions to come underneath the table. I can't see any indication that the variable has been deprecated, but in my envir

Re: [O] [bug?] org-latex-table-caption-above has no effect

2013-07-23 Thread James Harkins
At Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:44:04 +0200, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > James Harkins writes: > > > According to [1], the customization variable > > org-latex-table-caption-above was added to allow table captions to > > come underneath the table. I can't see any indication t

[O] "ignoreheading" for non-beamer export

2013-07-25 Thread James Harkins
Hi, I found an inventive solution by Suvayu to discard headlines from export here [1], but the 8.0+ solution throws an error in my environment. (defun sa-ignore-headline (contents backend info) "Ignore headlines with tag `ignoreheading'." (when (and (org-export-derived-backend-p backend 'late

[O] LaTeX export: {} on separate lines are escaped, why?

2013-07-27 Thread James Harkins
Just wondering if there's a better way to handle LaTeX commands written inline, when the command arguments span a line break. Currently, LaTeX export preserves curly braces as is if a pair of them is on a single line, but it escapes them if there's a line break in between: ~~ org Sections may b

[O] orgmode.org is missing a link to the split HTML manual

2013-08-11 Thread James Harkins
Is there a reason why the org-manual's index is not linked from the head orgmode.org page? Under orgmode.org/#docs, the link to the HTML manual is http://orgmode.org/org.html, which downloads the entire contents of the manual into the browser. This is perhaps tolerable on a full-size computer,

Re: [O] Worg: Links to parent nodes?

2013-08-12 Thread James Harkins
On Aug 12, 2013 1:39 PM, "Carsten Dominik" wrote: > > On 2.5.2013, at 13:56, James Harkins wrote: > >> Apologies if this has been asked already. I just noticed that, e.g., the ox-beamer.html page [1] has no links to its parent nodes. So for fun, I hacked the url to go b

[O] Buffer-specific export filter?

2013-08-20 Thread James Harkins
Is it possible to apply a specific filter during export for one org document, but not others? Basically, a buffer-specific export filter. It appears in the org manual that the hook needs to be added into e.g. org-export-filter-plain-text-functions, where it remains globally for the duration of

Re: [O] Buffer-specific export filter?

2013-08-20 Thread James Harkins
Suvayu Ali gmail.com> writes: > 1. Is it possible to set filters as buffer local? Okay the help string >says: "This variable may be risky if used as a file-local variable.", >so I guess the answer is no. > > 2. Otherwise you could have used a lisp source block in the buffer. You >c

[O] Problem writing my first export filter

2013-08-20 Thread James Harkins
Referring to [1]: I just tried the following, so that I could maintain a list of special cases where org's default latex export doesn't do what I want. (setq hjh-org-latex-macros '(("`em" "'em"))) (defun hjh-latex-filter-macros (text backend info) "hjh: Replace special cases listed in hjh-org

Re: [O] Buffer-specific export filter?

2013-08-21 Thread James Harkins
On Aug 21, 2013 3:41 PM, "Nicolas Goaziou" wrote: > In that case, you should disable smart quotes, which are not smart > enough for your use case. Note that they are not enabled by default. That's reasonable, but irritating while I'm still editing. I'm certain I'll leave some ASCII double quotes

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