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From: Ista Zahn <istazahn@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Tangling and Exporting an Unsupported Language.
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 15:22:13 -0400
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To: Malcolm Purvis <malcolm@purvis.id.au>
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Exporting and tangling don't require any language support.

#+begin_src foobarbas :tangle foo.bar
#+end_src

is perfectly fine and will export and tangle just fine. Or did I
misunderstand your question?

Best,
Ista

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 2:53 AM, Malcolm Purvis <malcolm@purvis.id.au> wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm writing an org document which contains code examples of a language
> not supported by Babel (a local domain specific language).  The language
> doesn't even have a supporting Emacs mode.
>
> I'm wondering what the best portable approach is to managing the code
> blocks.  I'm particularly interested in exporting the document to LaTeX
> and tangling the code.  I may need to share the document with others, so
> I'd prefer not to require a supporting elisp file if I can help it.
>
> Currently I'm using the org language, since it seems to be the most generic:
>
> #+begin_src org :tangle foo.bar
> #+end_src
>
> Is there a case for 'begin_src text' to handle arbitrary content?
>
> Malcolm
>
> --
>                Malcolm Purvis <malcolm@purvis.id.au>
>