[texhax] Gannt charts with TEX?

[Tom Schneider]

Stan:

> I'm very new to TEX so pardon my ignorance - where it shows.  I've
> been tasked with producing Gannt charts on a color printer of HP
> plotter using TEX (or LATEX, or ?) from data coming out of a Forest
> & Trees DB app.  From a quick perusal of "The LATEX Companion", 2nd
> edition, my hopes were raised that their might be a TEX Gannt
> Library (Class?) that I could "easily" grab and go with.  But I have
> been unable to find such a thing on the TUG site.  I'm hoping you
> might have some pointers/ideas of where to continue my search?

It helps to explain uncommon terms ...

google:
Gannt chart

http://users.rowan.edu/~kephar77//clinic/gannt_chart.html
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/20031204/Designandtechno/Keystage4/Designprojectde/Projectplanning/Producingaplann/Default.htm

planning charts!

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/timing/

% timing.sty:   Ludwig May/Jens Leilich  10.12.91 

might can be made to do something like what you want.

Look at the timing.pdf.

Tom

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