Hi Tom,
I certainly believe what you describe should be possible, although it
pains me to imagine embedding pure latex code in an Org-mode document
and losing the ability to use the org latex export helpers :), but I
digress.
Org-babel needs to be told to recognize latex source code blocks and how
they should be tangled, which can be accomplished with the following
(org-babel-add-interpreter "latex")
(add-to-list 'org-babel-tangle-langs '("latex" "tex"))
Once that is done `org-babel-tangle' should do the trick.
for example, after evaluating the above I was able to tangle the
following .org file into the following .tex file.
<babel-latex.org><latex-thesis.tex>Hope this suits your needs. Cheers -- Eric
"Thomas S. Dye" <
tsd@tsdye.com> writes:
Aloha all,
Is it possible (or would it be useful) to leverage the literate programming facilities of org-babel to
write LaTeX code?
I'd like to weave a document that describes how some thesis/idea/story can be developed/elaborated/told
and then tangle an instance of 'developed thesis'/'elaborated idea'/'told story' that LaTeX can make
presentable. The motivation for this is a desire to have one source document that will tangle 1) a slide
presentation via beamer, and 2) a print document for publication. The two share a common organization/
structure/plot but there are radically different presentation mode constraints.
Org-mode is a terrific tool for organizing, structuring, and plotting. Org-babel seems to be a likely
candidate for abstracting the different presentation modes.
Here is some pseudo-code for illustration:
* Idea 1
#+srcname: beamer-idea-1
#+begin_src latex :exports none
\begin{itemize}
\item first concept
\item second concept
\end{itemize}
#+end_src
#+srcname: latex-idea-1
#+begin_src latex :exports none
The first concept was developed by \citet{author1}. It later became the basis for the second concept \citep{author2}. ...
#+end_src
#+srcname: beamer-presentation
#+begin_src latex :tangle beamer-thesis :exports none
# <<beamer-idea-1>>
# <<beamer-idea-2>>
...
#+end_src
#+srcname: latex-presentation
#+begin_src latex :tangle latex-thesis :exports none
# <<latex-idea-1>>
# <<latex-idea-2>>
...
#+end_src
Tom
Thomas S. Dye, Ph.D.
T. S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, Inc.
Phone: (808) 529-0866 Fax: (808) 529-0884
http://www.tsdye.com
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