Thanks, Suvaya and Christian,  Unfortunately, neither of these two
suggestions really does what I had hoped.  Using INCLUDE files will
certainly allow me to reuse my text and export to different documents, but
at the cost of cluttering up my directories with a bunch of files which have
no other purpose.  And the syntax proposed by Christian produces verbatim
copies of the org-mode source, instead of allowing me to export the same
text at different points in the document.

I can achieve what I want already to some extent by using org-tables and the
like to generate latex code in a src block.  But this obviously doesn't
offer a general export solution to other formats, and it's a clunky way of
working.  It may be that the noweb syntax can't accomodate the kind of
src-export-reuse that I'm looking for.

- Phil Branigan

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This should get you part of the way: Use `org' as the language name, not
> `org-mode'. Enclose the noweb reference in another src block with noweb
> explicitly turned on. Reworked example follows.
>
> I can't seem to get rid of the code block around it, though, however I play
> with the header arguments.
>
> Yours,
> Christian
>
>
>
> * One section, exported to a particular document
>
> #+srcname: primates
> #+begin_src org
>  ,- chimps :: strong, smart and savage
>
>  ,- bonobos :: less savage, sexy, smart
>  ,- orangutans :: kinda asocial, with big arms
>  ,- gorillas :: really strong, but shy
> #+end_src
>
> Lots of text here.
>
> * Another section, exported to a different document
>
> Let's review what we know about the primate group.
>
> #+begin_src org :noweb yes
> <<primates>>
> #+end_src
>
>
> On 1/5/11 6:59 PM, Phil Branigan wrote:
>
>> In making up lecture and teaching materials, I would find it useful to
>> be able to use noweb references to replicate blocks of org-mode text
>> directly, rather than source code from latex or another language.  But
>> org-mode isn't one of the babel-supported languages.  Can anyone
>> suggest a tricky way to achieve this result?
>>
>> What I have in mind is something like the following:
>>
>> * One section, exported to a particular document
>>
>> #+srcname: primates
>> #+begin_src org-mode
>>   - chimps :: strong, smart and savage
>>   - bonobos :: less savage, sexy, smart
>>   - orangutans :: kinda asocial, with big arms
>>   - gorillas :: really strong, but shy
>> #+end_src
>>
>> Lots of text here.
>>
>> * Another section, exported to a different document
>>
>> Let's review what we know about the primate group.
>>
>> <<primates>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Phil Branigan
>>
>>
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