From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ista Zahn Subject: Re: "Fortran" missing in "List of supported code block languages"? Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 10:01:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <21844.38636.275545.219523@frac.u-strasbg.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35133) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsthX-0000TD-8R for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 14 May 2015 10:01:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsthW-0000jt-7Y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 14 May 2015 10:01:27 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-x22b.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c01::22b]:35377) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsthW-0000iw-2f for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 14 May 2015 10:01:26 -0400 Received: by obcus9 with SMTP id us9so53468194obc.2 for ; Thu, 14 May 2015 07:01:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <21844.38636.275545.219523@frac.u-strasbg.fr> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: alain.cochard@unistra.fr Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 8:37 AM, wrote: > John Kitchin writes: > > > Fortran is supported in the sense that you can edit a block in > > Fortran mode. But you cannot execute a Fortran block directly > > afaik. You have to tangle it, compile it and then run the > > executable. That is not true, you can in fact execute fortran blocks directly. ob-fortran.el has been part of org since 2011. IMO it is a documentation bug that it is not listed as a supported language. Best, Ista > > Thanks for the precision. I guess it would not hurt to mention this > kind of details in the doc, to some extent at least. > > > For example like this: > > > > http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/02/04/Literate-programming-example-with-Fortran-and-org-mode/ > > Very helpful. Seems to me that having such examples (at least the > simple one) in the doc would be extremely helpful to beginners. >