On Dec 1, 2009, at 4:54 AM, Nicolas Girard wrote:

Hi,
I can't get tangle to work the way I want.
Given a file f.org which contains

=====
#+srcname: a
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(a)
#+end_src

#+srcname: b
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
<<a>>
(b)
#+end_src
=====

I would like (a) to appear only once in the tangled file f.el.
All I could get is, that either (a) appears twice (default behaviour),
or (a) doesn't appear at all when I append ":tangle no" to #+srcname:
a.

Any thoughts ?

Your code snippet doesn't tangle at all here. Perhaps you have a setting somewhere that has an effect on tangling?

* Nicolas Girard

#+srcname: a

#+begin_src emacs-lisp

(a)

#+end_src

#+srcname: b

#+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle test.el

<<a>>

(b)

#+end_src

It yields:

;; generated by org-babel-tangle

;; [[file:~/Public/projects/worg/Worg/babel-doc/test.org::*Nicolas%20Girard][b]]

(a)

(b)

;; b ends here

Is this what you're after?

HTH,

Tom

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