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Subject: Re: Babel language "org"?
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 11:47:21 -0400
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If it weren't wrapped, it would be exported and not show up in the document text.

  -k.

On 2015-04-04 at 11:41, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm taking a closer look at Eric Neilsen's "Emacs org-mode examples and
> cookbook," specifically the org file Eric sent me. And right off the bat I
> see something interesting:
>
> ** General metadata
>
> An initial group sets the metadata used in any title pages, headers,
> footers, etc. used by the various exporters:
>
> #+NAME: orgmode-header-metadata
> #+BEGIN_SRC org
> #+TITLE:     Emacs org-mode examples
> #+AUTHOR:    Eric H. Neilsen, Jr.
> #+EMAIL:     neilsen@fnal.gov
> #+END_SRC
>
> . . . which shows up in the final html version as just
>
> #+TITLE:     Emacs org-mode examples
> #+AUTHOR:    Eric H. Neilsen, Jr.
> #+EMAIL:     neilsen@fnal.gov
>
> Why did he use what looks like babel source formatting? What is gained from
> having org "code" as literate programming? Any docs talking specifically
> about this, best practices? My first guess is he's just using this as an
> org-to-html formatting convention, but, again, how much of "org code"
> (whatever we call "org code") can I put in babel source containers?
>
> LB