From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: dmg <dmg@uvic.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: evaluation of perl in babel
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 07:11:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc9giimt.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAEBXXD84hBRzDTQZhP8kjL+5pyLf=aD_AWnqaDreuh2Yckafyg@mail.gmail.com
dmg <dmg@uvic.ca> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:54 AM, D M German <dmg@uvic.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Achim> You may misunderstand some things, or I don't understand what you are
>> Achim> asking. It is (at least currently) the responsibility of the Perl
>> Achim> program (or any other Babel language) to deliver the result in such a
>> Achim> way that it can be interpreted correctly by the result type chosen (in
>> Achim> other word, the program output must be valid Org syntax in the given
>> Achim> context). You can't have the same program produce tables, vectors and
>> Achim> LaTeX output just by switching the results type.
>>
>> I understand. But what I want is the output to be wrapped accordingly,
>> and my script to deliver exactly the output as expected. So say I want
>> to generate HTML in my script, I can use :results output, but then I
>> have to change to replace the #+being_example with #+begin_HTML.
>>
>> I guess that I can generate a two dimensional table with perl too
>> using output (printing the necessary | and \n), but then it will be
>> wrapped with #+begin_example.
>
> Ok, I got it. What I need is to return a string with whatever I need.
> A bit cumbersome, but I can live with it
>
It might be worth spending some time with the Org-mode manual.
http://orgmode.org/manual/Working-With-Source-Code.html
You could also use ":results org" or ":results raw", and
then return raw Org-mode from your Perl script instead of html.
Best,
>
>
> #+begin_src perl :results html
> "<table>
> <b>a </b>
> </table>
> "
> #+end_src
>
> #+RESULTS:
> #+BEGIN_HTML
> <table>
> <b>a </b>
> </table>
> #+END_HTML
>
> thanks again for the explanation,
--
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-25 14:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-24 21:08 evaluation of perl in babel D M German
2013-02-24 21:25 ` dmg
2013-02-24 22:09 ` Achim Gratz
2013-02-25 9:54 ` D M German
2013-02-25 9:57 ` dmg
2013-02-25 14:11 ` Eric Schulte [this message]
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