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From: "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: suggestion/feature-request for dynamic blocks
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Hi,

Inquisitive Scientist <inquisitive.scientist@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear Experts,
>
> I'd like to make a suggestion/feature-request for people who write dynamic
> blocks (which are very cool):
>
>  1. It would be really handy to have a parameter of the form :tname <NAME>
> which puts a #+TBLNAME: <NAME> into the top of the table created by a
> dynamic block. This makes the dynamic table easy to reference from other
> things.

Tables created by named code block are already prefixed with a
#+results: source-name line.  This allows them to be referenced by other
code blocks.  Is there some property of #+tblname: lines which is not
shared by #+results: lines which would make #+tblname: lines preferable?

> 
>  2. It would be even better to also provide a parameter of the form :dtname
> <NAME> which puts a #+TBLNAME: <NAME>-<DATE> into the top of the table where
> <DATE> is today's date.

I would recommend packing this date information into the results line
(rather into the name).  Can I ask what use-case this would be to
support?

> 
>  3. It might be handy to have orgmode provide a predefined set of standard
> parameters and tools for writing those at the start end of the table so all
> dynamic block writers can get the benefit of nifty parameters with minimal
> effort.
>

I'm not sure what you mean here.  By "dynamic block" do you mean "code
block" or something more general?

Thanks -- Eric

>
> Thanks again for org-mode,
>
> -I.S.
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