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From: Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com>
To: Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: suggestion for the manual: mention the "#+BEGIN_SRC org" trick when describing drawers and plainlists
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:14:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wr6vxmik.fsf@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACfYvRZvLQWSW2F3u7keEygTf3GL4pCT_hJZLgMyw_GFh7Fhbw@mail.gmail.com> (Ilya Shlyakhter's message of "Wed, 7 Mar 2012 20:58:51 -0500")

Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> p.s. it _would_ be good to have an option, when exporting a
> "#+BEGIN_SRC org" block, to use the Org export settings from the main
> Org file, rather than exporting a fontified copy of the Org buffer for
> the block.  Is there a way to do that currently?
>

Try exporting the results of the block rather than the code with
":exports results".  You may need to play with some results headings as
well, see the manual for the possibilities.

Cheers,

>
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu>wrote:
>
>> In Org, entry text can't have substructure (other than drawers and plain
>> lists): you can't have an entry that
>> has some text, then a subtree, then more text.
>> I just (re-)discovered that you can get around that by using "#+BEGIN_SRC
>> org" to include arbitrary org
>> subtrees in the middle of entry text.   That's useful not just when
>> writing in Org about Org, but anytime you want
>> to insert an extended sidenote in the middle of an entry.  As with all
>> source blocks, you edit it in its native (Org)
>> mode and it exports correctly.  You can copy links from the main Org and
>> past them into the nested Org.
>>
>> Just wish I'd learned this sooner :)  So, maybe mention this in the manual
>> in the sections on drawers and plainlists.
>>
>> ilya
>>
>>

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-08 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-08  1:13 suggestion for the manual: mention the "#+BEGIN_SRC org" trick when describing drawers and plainlists Ilya Shlyakhter
2012-03-08  1:58 ` Ilya Shlyakhter
2012-03-08 13:14   ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2012-03-08  7:32 ` Sebastien Vauban
2012-03-08 12:53   ` Ilya Shlyakhter
2012-03-08 12:59     ` Ilya Shlyakhter
2012-03-10 15:01 ` Mirko Vukovic
2012-03-10 19:00   ` suvayu ali
2012-03-10 19:47     ` Mirko Vukovic

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