| Hi Eric,
Wonderful! I look forward to using this new tool. Thank you.
If it eases your pain :), I don't plan to ignore the org latex export helpers. I'd like to produce a "reproducible research" document (as LaTeX/pdf and/or html) that includes descriptions of data collection, analysis, results, *and* presentation (as both conference paper and publication). Given my current toolbox, the document might contain source code chunks in SQL, R, Python, and LaTeX. The latex export helpers (and html export helpers) will have a role in producing the "reproducible research" document, which can have a relatively simple structure, but the helpers won't be called on to abstract the full complexity of LaTeX (or at least that large portion required to achieve some particular publication standard).
At this point, I don't fully comprehend the possible paths to this end, especially in comparison to the capabilities of others on this list, and comments or suggestions are most welcome.
All the best, Tom Thomas S. Dye, Ph.D. T. S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, Inc. Phone: (808) 529-0866 Fax: (808) 529-0884
On Oct 17, 2009, at 8:41 AM, Eric Schulte wrote: Hi Tom, I certainly believe what you describe should be possible, although it pains me to imagine embedding pure latex code in an Org-mode document and losing the ability to use the org latex export helpers :), but I digress. Org-babel needs to be told to recognize latex source code blocks and how they should be tangled, which can be accomplished with the following (org-babel-add-interpreter "latex") (add-to-list 'org-babel-tangle-langs '("latex" "tex")) Once that is done `org-babel-tangle' should do the trick. for example, after evaluating the above I was able to tangle the following .org file into the following .tex file. <babel-latex.org><latex-thesis.tex>Hope this suits your needs. Cheers -- Eric "Thomas S. Dye" < address@hidden> writes: Aloha all,
Is it possible (or would it be useful) to leverage the literate programming facilities of org-babel to
write LaTeX code?
I'd like to weave a document that describes how some thesis/idea/story can be developed/elaborated/told
and then tangle an instance of 'developed thesis'/'elaborated idea'/'told story' that LaTeX can make
presentable. The motivation for this is a desire to have one source document that will tangle 1) a slide
presentation via beamer, and 2) a print document for publication. The two share a common organization/
structure/plot but there are radically different presentation mode constraints.
Org-mode is a terrific tool for organizing, structuring, and plotting. Org-babel seems to be a likely
candidate for abstracting the different presentation modes.
Here is some pseudo-code for illustration:
* Idea 1
#+srcname: beamer-idea-1
#+begin_src latex :exports none
\begin{itemize}
\item first concept
\item second concept
\end{itemize}
#+end_src
#+srcname: latex-idea-1
#+begin_src latex :exports none
The first concept was developed by \citet{author1}. It later became the basis for the second concept \citep{author2}. ...
#+end_src
#+srcname: beamer-presentation
#+begin_src latex :tangle beamer-thesis :exports none
# <<beamer-idea-1>>
# <<beamer-idea-2>>
...
#+end_src
#+srcname: latex-presentation
#+begin_src latex :tangle latex-thesis :exports none
# <<latex-idea-1>>
# <<latex-idea-2>>
...
#+end_src
Tom
Thomas S. Dye, Ph.D.
T. S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, Inc.
Phone: (808) 529-0866 Fax: (808) 529-0884
http://www.tsdye.com
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