Good news! This is the last of my "things I want to contact
the mailing list about" backlog 😛
So, I recently wanted to be able to create a radar chart in
org, using #+PLOT
without a 500 character #+PLOT
line.
#+PLOT: transpose:yes type:radar min:0 max:4 file:"misc/document-format-comparison.png"
| Format | Fine-grained-control | Initial Effort | Syntax simplicity | Editor Support | Integrations | Ease-of-referencing | Versatility |
|-------------------+----------------------+----------------+-------------------+----------------+--------------+---------------------+-------------|
| Word | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| LaTeX | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| Org Mode | 4 | 2 | 3.5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Markdown | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Markdown + Pandoc | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
The colours are a doom-specific bit, because I draw them from
the current doom theme. I figure this could just be replaced
with a general purpose entry point into the plot generation
script where the user can add a 'custom preamble' function.
I'm also interested in refactoring the type:XXX bit so that
it's more general, less hardcoded. I don't know what may be
involved, but I'm thinking something similar to org export when
you can define a new export function could be nice (hough I
imagine that example is far more complicated than this would
be).
I'm hoping that someone may be interested enough to provide
feedback, and idealy help me extend org-plot in this manner,
with the goal of having this functionality upstreamed (assuming
interest in doing so).
Please let me know!
All the best,
tecosaur
(p.s. as mentioned in my first email, I am going to try
getting dragged down this rabbit-hole again till late june)