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From: "Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: #+call split into multiple lines?
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:27:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ip4bw6yd.fsf@somewhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m1sj3fw7f9.fsf@poto.westell.com

Hi Thomas,

Thomas S. Dye wrote:
> In this situation I often put the arguments in a named Org table and
> then write the Babel source code block to take a single argument--the
> table name--and parse the information passed in that way.  
>
> #+name: card-table
> | cname                   | gname      | photo                 | etc.|
> | Dr. Stefan Vollmar      | Stefan     | stefan-vollmar.jpg    | ... |
> | Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Jr. | Stefan Jr. | stefan-vollmar-jr.jpg | ... |
>
>
> #+call: mhead-hcard(card=card-table[0,]) for Stefan
>
> #+call: mhead-hcard(card=card-table[1,]) for Stefan Jr.
>
> If you don't mind writing some extra code for the Babel function, then
>
> #+call: mhead-hcard(card=card-table,gname="Stefan")
>
> etc.

And do you eventually have a way to write a "for-loop" for all the lines of
the tables, not being forced to write as many calls as the number of lines you
do have?

I don't see (immediately) how to do such, but that would really allow to
promote such a use case!

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sebastien Vauban

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-28 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-28 20:49 #+call split into multiple lines? Stefan Vollmar
2013-03-28 21:17 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-03-28 21:27   ` Sebastien Vauban [this message]
2013-03-28 21:51     ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-03-29  8:24       ` Stefan Vollmar
2013-03-29  9:25         ` Achim Gratz
2013-03-29  9:34         ` feng shu
2013-03-29  2:33     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-03-29  2:43       ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-03-29  3:14         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-03-29  7:18 ` Achim Gratz

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