From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) Subject: Re: "Fortran" missing in "List of supported code block languages"? Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 07:21:39 -1000 Message-ID: References: <21844.38636.275545.219523@frac.u-strasbg.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33340) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yswpc-0000cz-9y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 14 May 2015 13:22:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YswpZ-0004R0-3J for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 14 May 2015 13:22:00 -0400 Received: from gproxy8-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com ([67.222.33.93]:38415) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YswpY-0004JH-SY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 14 May 2015 13:21:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Ista Zahn's message of "Thu, 14 May 2015 10:01:04 -0400") 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: Ista Zahn Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist , alain.cochard@unistra.fr Ista Zahn writes: > 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. >> > > Fortran is one of several under-documented babel languages (see http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages.html). There is a template for users willing to start a first draft of the fortran or other language documentation (see http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages.html#develop). All the best, Tom -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com