Customizing how inactive timestamps are displayed

Customizing how inactive timestamps are displayed

[Nicolas Girard]

Hi again,
in the agenda view, inactive timestamps are displayed like:

  category: 12:50...... [ Some stuff

Is the '[ ' intentional, or is caused by a bug in my configuration ?
I find it a little bit disturbing, as my eyes keep looking for an
hypothetic closing ']'...
If need be, could it be possible to customize this appearance ?

Re: Customizing how inactive timestamps are displayed

[Carsten Dominik]

On Dec 10, 2009, at 11:34 PM, Nicolas Girard wrote:

> Hi again,
> in the agenda view, inactive timestamps are displayed like:
>
>  category: 12:50...... [ Some stuff
>
> Is the '[ ' intentional, or is caused by a bug in my configuration ?
> I find it a little bit disturbing, as my eyes keep looking for an
> hypothetic closing ']'...

This is intentional, as an indication that this is indeed an
inactive time stamp.  While I can see that you might be
looking for the closing bracket, I also think that this is a
quite natural way to mark inactive time stamps.  Sure, I *could* make
this marker string a variable - what would you propose as better
options?

- Carsten


> If need be, could it be possible to customize this appearance ?
>
>
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- Carsten

Re: Customizing how inactive timestamps are displayed

[Nicolas Girard]

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2009/12/14 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>:
>
> On Dec 10, 2009, at 11:34 PM, Nicolas Girard wrote:
>
>> Hi again,
>> in the agenda view, inactive timestamps are displayed like:
>>
>>  category: 12:50...... [ Some stuff
>>
>> Is the '[ ' intentional, or is caused by a bug in my configuration ?
>> I find it a little bit disturbing, as my eyes keep looking for an
>> hypothetic closing ']'...
>
> This is intentional, as an indication that this is indeed an
> inactive time stamp.  While I can see that you might be
> looking for the closing bracket, I also think that this is a
> quite natural way to mark inactive time stamps.  Sure, I *could* make
> this marker string a variable - what would you propose as better
> options?
>

Hi Carsten,

my personal taste would be some kind of horizontal sign, because it
would look closer to what I'd have drawn myself using pen & paper,
answering my own question "hey, what did I do today ?" (French people
tend to use dashes when writing lists).

That said, I'm using the free Inconsolata [*] font as my main font in
emacs, which offers a rich collection of various geometric shapes &
symbols. So, at no extra cost, I can enhance the aspect of my Org
buffers.

Attached is a little example to demonstrate what can be done. To get
this result:
1. I had to redefine org-agenda-format-date-aligned so that I can
replace the hardcoded lines surrounding dates with better looking ones
2. I used the "Watch" unicode character to represent scheduled events:
    (setq org-agenda-scheduled-leaders '("⌚ " "⌚ "))
3. I replaced the hardcoded '[' character denoting inactive timestamps
with a white triangle

See ? Who said Org couldn't be sexier ?

[*] http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

-- 
Nicolas

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Re: Customizing how inactive timestamps are displayed

[Carsten Dominik]

On Dec 15, 2009, at 10:57 PM, Nicolas Girard wrote:

> 2009/12/14 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>:
>>
>> On Dec 10, 2009, at 11:34 PM, Nicolas Girard wrote:
>>
>>> Hi again,
>>> in the agenda view, inactive timestamps are displayed like:
>>>
>>>  category: 12:50...... [ Some stuff
>>>
>>> Is the '[ ' intentional, or is caused by a bug in my configuration ?
>>> I find it a little bit disturbing, as my eyes keep looking for an
>>> hypothetic closing ']'...
>>
>> This is intentional, as an indication that this is indeed an
>> inactive time stamp.  While I can see that you might be
>> looking for the closing bracket, I also think that this is a
>> quite natural way to mark inactive time stamps.  Sure, I *could* make
>> this marker string a variable - what would you propose as better
>> options?
>>
>
> Hi Carsten,
>
> my personal taste would be some kind of horizontal sign, because it
> would look closer to what I'd have drawn myself using pen & paper,
> answering my own question "hey, what did I do today ?" (French people
> tend to use dashes when writing lists).
>
> That said, I'm using the free Inconsolata [*] font as my main font in
> emacs, which offers a rich collection of various geometric shapes &
> symbols. So, at no extra cost, I can enhance the aspect of my Org
> buffers.
>
> Attached is a little example to demonstrate what can be done. To get
> this result:
> 1. I had to redefine org-agenda-format-date-aligned so that I can
> replace the hardcoded lines surrounding dates with better looking ones
> 2. I used the "Watch" unicode character to represent scheduled events:
>    (setq org-agenda-scheduled-leaders '("⌚ " "⌚ "))
> 3. I replaced the hardcoded '[' character denoting inactive timestamps
> with a white triangle
>
> See ? Who said Org couldn't be sexier ?
>
> [*] http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

That *does* look nice!

Please pull and use `org-agenda-inactive-leader'

- Carsten

>
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- Carsten

Re: Customizing how inactive timestamps are displayed

[Nicolas Girard]

2009/12/16 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>:
>
> On Dec 15, 2009, at 10:57 PM, Nicolas Girard wrote:
>
>> See ? Who said Org couldn't be sexier ?
>>
>> [*] http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
>
> That *does* look nice!
>
> Please pull and use `org-agenda-inactive-leader'
>

Thanks very much, Carsten !

-- 
Nicolas

[OT]: Inconsolata and emacs

[Markus Heller]

On 12/15/2009 1:57 PM, Nicolas Girard wrote:
> 2009/12/14 Carsten Dominik<carsten.dominik@gmail.com>:
>>
>> On Dec 10, 2009, at 11:34 PM, Nicolas Girard wrote:
>>

[snip]

>
> That said, I'm using the free Inconsolata [*] font as my main font in
> emacs, which offers a rich collection of various geometric shapes&
> symbols. So, at no extra cost, I can enhance the aspect of my Org
> buffers.
>
> Attached is a little example to demonstrate what can be done. To get
> this result:
> 1. I had to redefine org-agenda-format-date-aligned so that I can
> replace the hardcoded lines surrounding dates with better looking ones
> 2. I used the "Watch" unicode character to represent scheduled events:
>      (setq org-agenda-scheduled-leaders '("⌚ " "⌚ "))
> 3. I replaced the hardcoded '[' character denoting inactive timestamps
> with a white triangle

Your screenshot looks really nice.  I'm wondering, what OS are you 
using?  I treid to use inconsolata in emacs under windoze XP, but the 
font looks terrible, no matter if I activate clear type or not.

How did you set emacs up to use inconsolata?

Thanks
Markus

> See ? Who said Org couldn't be sexier ?
>
> [*] http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
>
>
>
>
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