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Re: Org mode for meeting minutes
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Christian Egli |
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Re: Org mode for meeting minutes |
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Thu, 26 Mar 2020 09:28:26 +0100 |
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Hi Timm
Timm Lichte writes:
> Glad you find it interesting. I think both ways of taking notes have
> their merits and use cases. In small productive project meetings, I'd
> rather use more of the org-mode infrastructure. When there is a larger
> event with changing participants and its really important to document
> and keep track of what is going on, simple annotated lists fare better
> in my experience.
I think you are probably right. When taking notes quickly your approach
without having to fidget with Tasks is probably faster. I just did not
want to stray too far off plain org-mode notation.
>> If I understand correctly you are defining some kind of extra list
>> markup (is something a task or a decision, etc) and the you wrote a
>> custom exporter that produces fancy LaTeX for the minutes (well, if I
>> understand correctly it really is a custom exporter that generates
>> org-mode and then LaTeX from there).
>
> Yes, I'm basically extending the syntax for descriptions and
> overlaying it with some convenient font-lock. My custom exporter
> pushes everything in a temporary buffer and replaces the minutes
> notation with LaTeX expressions and then starts the regular
> org-export. This probably looks awkward but gives me full flexibility.
Well, it might look weird, but I think the idea is good. TBH, I'm not
sure if there is another (programatic) way to derive from an existing
exporter.
> The LaTeX document is just a list of sections with nested itemize
> environments. One item would look like this:
>
> \item \ActionTag{Peter}{::} \ActionTagMargin{Peter}Something to do.
>
> I've pushed the TeX file of the example to the repository. Hope this
> makes it clearer.
Ah, yes, this makes it much clearer. I really like this.
> I'm really hesitant to make this a MELPA package right away, if this
> is what you mean. The font-lock and everything is really individual
> and non-generic. But I'll think about it.
I understand. Now that I think of it it might be better to package the
LaTeX commands into a package on CTAN. I looked at the various LaTeX
minutes packages and so far yours seems almost the nicest.
Thanks
Christian
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Christian Egli
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- Re: Org mode for meeting minutes, Christian Egli, 2020/03/23
- Re: Org mode for meeting minutes, Eric S Fraga, 2020/03/23
- Re: Org mode for meeting minutes, Axel Kielhorn, 2020/03/23
- Re: Org mode for meeting minutes, Carsten Dominik, 2020/03/23
- Re: Org mode for meeting minutes, Pankaj Jangid, 2020/03/23
- Re: Org mode for meeting minutes, Timm Lichte, 2020/03/23
- Re: Org mode for meeting minutes, Eric S Fraga, 2020/03/24
- Re: Org mode for meeting minutes, Bob Newell, 2020/03/25