From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas Shannon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What are Emacs best uses? Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 04:49:45 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87bo51mv8q.fsf@motoko.kusanagi> <87a9kj2ezw.fsf@motoko.kusanagi> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376646624 29061 80.91.229.3 (16 Aug 2013 09:50:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:50:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 16 11:50:26 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VAGfn-00061S-Fi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:50:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57526 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VAGfn-0002Ou-3Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 05:50:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38857) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VAGfS-00029X-HB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 05:50:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VAGfM-0005Dv-BG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 05:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from ehub22.webhostinghub.com ([173.205.127.64]:50206) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VAGfM-0005C0-7V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 05:49:56 -0400 Original-Received: from 216-80-103-171.drb-bsr1.chi-drb.il.static.cable.rcn.com ([216.80.103.171]:35846 helo=Thomass-MacBook-Pro.local) by ehub22.webhostinghub.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VAGfC-0000Dr-JM; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 05:49:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87a9kj2ezw.fsf@motoko.kusanagi> (W. Greenhouse's message of "Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:41:23 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (darwin) X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ehub22.webhostinghub.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - bearingthenews.com X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: ehub22.webhostinghub.com: authenticated_id: tshanno@bearingthenews.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows NT kernel [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 173.205.127.64 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92925 Archived-At: wgreenhouse@riseup.net (W. Greenhouse) writes: > A calendar in LaTeX might be more suitable for the "hipster PDA" > strategy: print out a week or so at a time and fold it up into a jacket > pocket or notebook. Emacs can help you do this too, and in fact the > calendar/diary has some pre-built LaTeX layouts that are suitable for > this. See (info "(emacs) Writing Calendar Files") for some info on the > `cal-tex' library which does this. Yes, I agree. However I've never been able to get one of these to compile with my entries inserted. I think its because many of the entries have LaTeX code inserted into them and somewhere along the line things get confused. I really should investigate further and file a bug report but I haven't gotten around to it. In the mean time I'm perfectly fine with saving the fancy diary display as a text file and updating it on my phone. It actually works pretty well. Indeed, converting the Fancy Diary to LaTeX is trivial and I may automate it some day. Thanks for the suggestions. Tom S.