Task Juggler Editor

[Robert Sharp]

Hi,

Anyone recommend a text editor for task juggler files? I am using Scite at the moment and otherwise could use Redcar, which is not very widely used but I think does take Textmate syntax rules. Guessing that there is nothing specific to Task Juggler, can anyone recommend a language that is near-enough to sort of indentations, brackets, colours etc?

Thanks,
Robert

[John Hendy]

Not that you're at all asking for this, but I create TaskJuggler
project files with Emacs Org-mode.[1] Org-mode uses a sort of markup
language, allowing you to create items and assign tags and properties
to those items. Based on those settings, Org-mode is able to export
into a variety of formats, including creating tjp files. There are
keyboard shortcuts to add properties such as task_id, duration,
stat/stop, etc. When you export, a .tjp file is created by converting
various item properties into the appropriate syntax. Lastly, the file
is compiled with tj3 and generates output by using the reports.tji
definition file you specify.[2]

Again, not that you're at all looking for any of that, but it's a
really nice tool I thought I'd mention in the context of looking for
better/different ways to edit TJ code!


Best regards,
John


[1] http://orgmode.org/
[2] For more, specifically, on Org-mode and TJ, see these:
- http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-taskjuggler.html
- http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-taskjuggler3.html


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[Renato Pontefice]

Hi John,

I went on orgmode website, and I see the the product. It seem to be avery useful and great tool, that use TJ to produce Gantt; Is it?

TIA

Renato

2013/12/4 John Hendy <jw.h...@gmail.com>

[John Hendy]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Renato Pontefice
<renato.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi John,
> I went on orgmode website, and I see the the product. It seem to be avery
> useful and great tool, that use TJ to produce Gantt; Is it?

Well, being an avid user... I'm biased but would respond, "Heck yes
it's a useful and great tool." I primarily gravitated toward it as
it's one of the few tools (or was at the time) that could intersperse
notes with todos. Prior to that I was storing notes for work in
TiddlyWiki and using a separate task manager for todos/actions
(Chandler, iGTD, todo.sh, etc.).

Org lets you wrote notes in a sort of nested outline format and use
special keywords to define an action. It can then extract the todos
into a separate view that shows you *all* your todos and none of the
"prose."

But it has a hefty arsenal of export abilities as well -- LaTeX/PDF,
html, ODT, and, of course, TaskJuggler. I like that you can define the
which heading it should use as the one containing all of your TJ task
definitions. This way, you can store project notes, meeting minutes,
todos, and so forth in a file *in addition* to having your task/Gantt
chart definition in the same file. Org can export just the contents of
a single heading, so you can tell it to export your TJ heading (with
other sub-headings containing the tasks/resources) as a Gantt, other
headings as mini-reports in PDF/LaTeX, others as html, and even others
as, say, weekly team meeting presentations with LaTeX Beamer.

I haven't found anything that can come close to doing what Org does,
and while it's good to know the right syntax for html, LaTeX, and
TJ... so far I haven't found myself longing to go back to typing loads
of curly braces and other associated verbage :)


Best regards,
John

[Thomas Jarosch]

I've posted syntax highlighting files for KDE's kate a while ago.
It was a rough port from the TJ2 syntax highlighting files,
still does the job for me.

Cheers,
Thomas

[Renato]

Does anyone use the export function of emacs org-mode?
I've known it from a month, but it seem (to me) to be very very god!

Can anyone tell me sothing abou it?

TIA

Renato

[Rafik NACCACHE]

Cool thing about tj on emacs is that you can use org's column-mode to
specify tasks / resources properties.

The bad part is that finding current documentation about it is real
difficult as far as I can remember, the names of libraries to activate
aren't accurate, and the docs are about tj2 in general...

Hope someone points us to the right location for tj3 on org-mode as it
seems pretty powerful... at the meanwhile, I had to use vim ... not so
bad...

[Christian Egli]

Hi

On 12/20/2013 04:38 PM, Renato wrote:
> Does anyone use the export function of emacs org-mode?

I wrote the original implementation and used to use it quite a bit. Not
so much nowadays as we mostly do scrum now.

> Can anyone tell me sothing abou it?

What would you like to know?

Thanks
Christian

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