Re: Org-mode Code Blocks Manuscript: Request For Comments

["Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>]

Hi Eric,

On Dec 2, 2010, at 1:13 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Dan Davison, Tom Dye, Carsten Dominik and myself have been working  
>> on a
>> paper introducing Org-mode's code block functionality.  We plan to
>> submit this paper to the Journal of Statistical Software.  As both
>> Org-mode and the code block functionality are largely products of  
>> this
>> mailing list community, and in the spirit of an open peer review  
>> process
>> we are releasing the current draft of the paper here to solicit your
>> review and comments.
>>
>> Both the .org and .pdf formats of the paper are available at the
>> following locations.
>>
>> http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/org-paper/babel.org
>>
>> http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/org-paper/babel.pdf
>>
>> Thanks -- Eric
>
> Thanks for giving us early access to this.  Very nice article.  I
> particularly like the range of examples you have included.  They are
> comprehensive (both the languages illustrated and the types of  
> problems)
> and each is nicely self-contained.  I am a little surprised at the
> choice of journal, mind you...  but best of luck in your submission!
> Send us the citation information when it comes out as I'm sure I'll  
> have
> plenty of occasions to cite it (e.g. the paper I am currently writing
> relies strongly on org for the generation of results from octave code
> embedded in the document...).
>
> eric
> -- 

Would you recommend publishing someplace else?  We hoped list members  
would have opinions on this and welcome comments and suggestions.

All the best,
Tom