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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible to use src block to generate org headlines for export?
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:27:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqb4amqb.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zjg1gddd.fsf@fastmail.fm

Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:

> I am attempting to use a babel code snippet to generate org headlines
> for export. However, I seem to be running into a corner case here.
>
> AFAICT, the only way to generate headlines safely with babel is to wrap
> them in a :RESULTS: drawer.
>
> Take the following example:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC perl :export results :results output org drawer
>   print "* Headline One\n";
>   print "* Headline Two\n";
>   print "* Headline Three\n";
> #+END_SRC
>
>
> If I hit the source block, it creates wraps the output in a drawer. This
> protects the results, so when executing the source block again, babel
> correctly detects the drawer and replaces the output rather than
> multiplying it indefinitely, as it does with "raw".
>
> #+RESULTS:
> :RESULTS:
> * Headline One
> * Headline Two
> * Headline Three
> :END:
>
>
> The problem with the results drawer is that org-element (and thus ox.el)
> does not recognize it as a drawer and thus includes :RESULTS: in the
> export. The html output looks like this:
>
> <p>
> :RESULTS:
> </p>
> <div id="outline-container-sec-1" class="outline-2">
> <h2 id="sec-1"><span class="section-number-2">1</span> Headline One</h2>
> </div>
> <div id="outline-container-sec-2" class="outline-2">
> <h2 id="sec-2"><span class="section-number-2">2</span> Headline Two</h2>
> </div>
> <div id="outline-container-sec-3" class="outline-2">
> <h2 id="sec-3"><span class="section-number-2">3</span> Headline Three</h2>
> <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-3">
> </div>
> </div>
> </div>
>
> In short, is there a more graceful and export-friendly way to use babel
> to generate org headlines for export? Or is there an easy way to get the
> export backend to delete the opening part of the drawer (i.e.,
> :RESULTS:)?
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated. 
>

No solace for your pain alas.  See
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/88557

My suggestion (as it was for Ronald, except that he had already rejected
it :-) ) would be to use raw: you lose the idempotency of results
production, but I don't know of any other problems.

-- 
Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-23  1:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-22 23:52 Possible to use src block to generate org headlines for export? Matt Lundin
2014-07-23  1:27 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2014-07-23  2:35   ` Matt Lundin
2014-07-23  2:46     ` Matt Lundin
2014-07-23 13:42     ` Brett Viren
2014-07-23 15:17       ` Matt Lundin
2014-07-23 16:06         ` Charles Berry
2014-07-23 17:07           ` Matt Lundin
2014-07-24  1:51           ` Nick Dokos
2014-07-24 10:21             ` Andreas Leha
2014-07-25  8:31               ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-07-25 13:05                 ` Andreas Leha
2014-07-25 13:23                   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-07-25 13:39                     ` Andreas Leha
2014-07-25 14:26                       ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-07-25 16:08                       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-07-26  0:26                         ` Andreas Leha
2014-07-26  8:07                           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-07-26 19:47                             ` Andreas Leha
2014-07-24 18:40             ` Charles Berry
2014-07-24 19:41               ` Nick Dokos
2014-07-23 19:53         ` Brett Viren
2014-07-23 20:42           ` Matt Lundin
2014-07-24 22:05             ` Brett Viren
2014-07-23 16:09     ` Rick Frankel

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