Re: [O] "Fortran" missing in "List of supported code block languages"?

[Ista Zahn]

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 8:37 AM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> John Kitchin writes:
>
>  > Fortran is supported in the sense that you can edit a block in
>  > Fortran mode. But you cannot execute a Fortran block directly
>  > afaik. You have to tangle it, compile it and then run the
>  > executable.

That is not true, you can in fact execute fortran blocks directly.
ob-fortran.el has been part of org since 2011. IMO it is a
documentation bug that it is not listed as a supported language.

Best,
Ista

>
> Thanks for the precision.  I guess it would not hurt to mention this
> kind of details in the doc, to some extent at least.
>
>  > For example like this:
>  >
>  > 
> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/02/04/Literate-programming-example-with-Fortran-and-org-mode/
>
> Very helpful.  Seems to me that having such examples (at least the
> simple one) in the doc would be extremely helpful to beginners.
>