Re: want a file format easily edited and read by emacs that allows (multiple) pictures to be included

[Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 2:10 AM,  <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
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> On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 02:47:23PM -0800, Dan Hitt wrote:
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>> Hi Marcin,
>>
>> You are very nice, but what is a 'source block'?
>>
>> Is this like cdata in html?
>
> Yes and no :-)
>
> In org mode, a source block looks like
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC C
> void img_free(img *image)
> {
>   if(image) {
>     if(image->pixels) free(image->pixels);
>     free(image);
>   }
> }
> #+END_SRC
>
> Meaning: the code between this markup is C source code. Thus Org
> knows, for many languages:
>
>   - how to highlight it and edit it, via the appropriate
>     Emacs mode
>
>   - how to "execute" it (and if you wish, insert the
>     results into your buffer). Yes, for C, Org would
>     call the compiler for you, for a snippet like the
>     above pack some boilerplate around it with a main
>     function calling into your func, and printing the
>     return value, for org to collect the result (that's
>     Org babel magic).
>
> There are many ways to pass parameters to source code blocks,
> which controls their behaviour.
>
> Definitely worth a look.
>
> Cheers
> - -- t
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Wow, i mean, just wow.

Presumably there's some confirmation necessary for compilation and
execution, or otherwise it would be some kind of multi-lingual hole
(??)

I have to think about this for a few days :) :) . . . . .

dan