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From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to pass a block of text to a code block as data?
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Michael Baum <maabaum@gmail.com> writes:

> Sean, that helps too, thank you. Now that you and Sebastien have gone to
> all this trouble I found the part of the manual that sort of describes
> this, but I clearly didn't understand it before. Possible needs a more
> worked-out example for the slow among us, like self.
>

Patches are welcome, especially documentation patches.

[...]
>
> NOTICE THAT while both return the result as Example text, the first simple
> prepends each line with a colon, simple Example form, and the second wraps
> the result in an Example block without altering the lines.
>
> Not sure why? Is this just a function of the number of lines of the text?
>

Yes, this is a function of the number of lines in the output text.  You
can control where this switch is made by changing the value of
org-babel-min-lines-for-block-output.

Best,

-- 
Eric Schulte
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