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From: Taru Karttunen <taruti@taruti.net>
Subject: Babel - display results in an overlay?
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:03:36 +0300
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Hello

I am looking for an org-mode solution to storing a number of variables and
referencing them nicely in an org-mode buffer.

I would like to write something like this:
"{foo:1+3} and {bar:foo+3}"
and have it displayed (with overlays) as:
"foo:4 and bar:7"

Any ideas how to hack org and babel to do this. Simple numeric
operations suffice but I have a few dozen variables so an easy
an intuitive interface is the most important aspect.

- Taru Karttunen