If you haven't already, you probably know all about it; but, for any newcomers on the subject of Literate Programming & source code blocks, etc. Highly recommend Knuth's CWEB book & of course NOWEB software {which is CWEB generalized for ALL programming languages}: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/cweb.html Thanks Diego, its a very interesting config example On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 2:24 PM Diego Zamboni wrote: > I use the config John mentioned and I like it - though I use different > symbols. Here's my config if you want an example: > > https://github.com/zzamboni/dot-emacs/blob/master/init.org#source-code-blocks > > --Diego > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 9:24 PM John Kitchin > wrote: > > > > Here is one approach: > > > > https://pank.eu/blog/pretty-babel-src-blocks.html > > > > I feel like I have seen some work that used ruby and python icons as > displays over #+begin_src, but I can't find it now. > > > > John > > > > ----------------------------------- > > Professor John Kitchin > > Doherty Hall A207F > > Department of Chemical Engineering > > Carnegie Mellon University > > Pittsburgh, PA 15213 > > 412-268-7803 > > @johnkitchin > > http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 2:54 PM William Denton wrote: > >> > >> Is anyone doing any fancy formatting of source blocks, such as putting > a line > >> in the left fringe, or a box around them, or having some interesting > background? > >> > >> I ask because I recently changed the theme I use to get the dark > Solarized look > >> I like,[1] and all of a sudden my #+begin_src lines were underlined and > >> #+end_src had a line above it. These come from org-block-begin-line and > >> org-block-end-line, and are shown here, but I'd never noticed them in > >> documentation or had them on my screen before: > >> > >> > https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/examples/fontify-src-code-blocks.html > >> > >> Aside from fontifying the source blocks I've never done anything > special about > >> them (except wonder how I ever did anything without them), but seeing > this made > >> me wonder if anyone here has really customized them so they look like > medieval > >> manuscripts or something from a futuristic video game. (If any of that > is > >> possible---but in Emacs, anything is possible ...) > >> > >> Bill > >> > >> [1] Now I'm using https://github.com/bbatsov/solarized-emacs, with > variable > >> pitch turned off and Org headline resizing turned off. > >> > >> -- > >> William Denton :: Toronto, Canada --- Listening to Art: > https://listeningtoart.org/ > >> https://www.miskatonic.org/ --- GHG.EARTH: https://ghg.earth/ > >> Caveat lector. --- STAPLR: https://staplr.org/ > >> > >