Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:

> Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin@ul.ie> writes:
>
>> Does there exist any documentation on extending org-babel to another
>> language?
>>
>
> Hi Brendan,
>
> There is a template [1] which may be filled out to add support for a new
> language.  More generally simply defining a function named
> `org-babel-execute:foo' will cause babel to try to execute foo code
> blocks using that function.  See the template for existing
> `org-babel-execute:*' functions.
>
>>
>> Relatedly, is anyone working on adding Stata coverage to org-babel?
>>
>
> I'm not but who knows.  If you do add support for Stata please consider
> contributing it to Org-mode (see [2]).

stata should be not to difficult to add, as ESS supports stata and I
would guess that most functions would be the same (or very similar)

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> Best,
> Eric
>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Brendan
>
>
> Footnotes: 
> [1]  http://orgmode.org/w/worg.git/blob/HEAD:/org-contrib/babel/ob-template.el
>
> [2]  http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html

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