From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Was tj3 --> tikz gantt chart
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:29:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762leitpy.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+M2ft-B1SiD9DwJ7jNqths-ddgO1n8fog0W0Rh7zhKo23sfaQ@mail.gmail.com> (John Hendy's message of "Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:58:57 -0500")
John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>
>> [...]
>>
>>> In any case, it looks like *just* after this discussion, something a
>>> bit more formal came about for gantt charts and TikZ. I thought you
>>> and others might be interested in it:
>>> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gantt-tikz
>>>
>>> It looks like a summary/walkthrough of this package:
>>> http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex_gantt_package.php
>>
>> Many thanks for bringing this to our attention. It looks very good and
>> definitely much cleaner and prettier than my little hack job!
>>
>> It should be fairly straightforward to modify my org table to gantt
>> chart code to work with this package. I'll add this to my list of jobs
>> to do "when I have the time" or "when I next need this functionality",
>> whichever comes soonest ;-)
>>
>
> One thing to note is that this is using ConTeXt, not [La]Tex. I had
> actually never heard of it before and there were some notable
> differences between the file structure, particularly the preamble. Let
> me know what you think when you dig into that and if org can manage.
> Bummer the package wasn't for straight LaTeX!
>
>
> John
Ah but the [[http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex/gantt.sty][original]], linked
to from the site above, *is* for LaTeX and has the same functionality, I
believe? It's the one I would use in any case.
--
: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1
: using Org-mode version 7.7 (release_7.7.222.gd7757)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-30 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-08 22:46 Was tj3 --> tikz gantt chart John Hendy
2010-11-09 9:46 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-07-21 21:33 ` John Hendy
2011-07-27 12:40 ` Bastien
2011-08-03 23:18 ` John Hendy
2011-08-30 11:47 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-08-30 12:58 ` John Hendy
2011-08-30 19:29 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2011-08-30 19:39 ` John Hendy
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