From: Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu>
To: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: suggestion for the manual: mention the "#+BEGIN_SRC org" trick when describing drawers and plainlists
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 20:58:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACfYvRZvLQWSW2F3u7keEygTf3GL4pCT_hJZLgMyw_GFh7Fhbw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACfYvRaR9ZusQjnvE3DjPPR+e-611cUWd8A+O_6NwZ4Vj7g-fw@mail.gmail.com>
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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?
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
>
>
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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 [this message]
2012-03-08 13:14 ` Eric Schulte
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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