Re: Best practices for literate programming [was: Latex export of tables]

[Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>]

Hi Rainer,

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:55:50AM +0200, Rainer M. Krug wrote:
> 
> I did not follow the initial thread, but the new header caught my
> attentian, as I am doing something similar with papers. Nothing against
> org for writing papers, but I prefer LyX [1]. But for doing the analysis,
> org together, nothing beats org. So in my org file I have the
> analysis which creates graphs on export (and a basic report of the
> analysis, including all the source code necessary, which I can then use
> as an appendix for the paper).
> 
> These graphs are then inserted in the lyx file. I assume, you used
> something similar, only that the oputput can then be used in the org
> file (thesis) - correct?

Yes something like that; usually for me analysis code is so complicated
that doing it inside Org would be madness :-p, I have dedicated software
projects for that.  I only use Org for simple spreadsheet operations in
tables and eventually plotting them.  These then get included in the
final "thesis" file.

Cheers,

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Suvayu

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