Re: [Announcement] Org-babel initial release

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Eric,

thank you very much for this fantastic contribution to Org.

- Carsten

On Sep 14, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Eric Schulte wrote:

> Dan Davison and I (Eric Schulte) are happy to announce that Org-babel
> has now been released as a contributed package in Org-mode with
> corresponding documentation on worg [1].
>
> Org-babel provides the following functionality:
> - Source-code execution and control of output in org buffers
> - currently supported languages [2]:
>   - emacs-lisp
>   - shell scripts
>   - R
>   - ruby
>   - python
>   - SQL
>   - gnuplot
>   - dot
>   - ditaa
>   - asymptote
>   - Haskell
>   - OCaml
>   - css
>   - sass
> - results of code execution can be [3]:
>   - passed to other source-code blocks
>   - inserted into Org buffer as Org-mode table
>   - inserted into Org buffer as escaped text
>   - inserted into Org buffer as raw Org-mode text
>   - dropped to a file and linked to from Org-mode buffer (e.g. ditaa)
>   - ignored
> - Meta-programming language for org mode: each source-code block is
> treated as a function which can accept arguments in the form of:
> - entire org-mode tables
> - output of other source-code blocks
> - raw text
> - values of cells in Org-mode tables using the Org spreadsheet
>   functionality
> - Spreadsheet enhancement: source-code blocks can be called from
> spreadsheet functions within tables
> - Community maintained library of useful code blocks [4]
> - reproducible research [5]
> - literate programming with org-mode [6]
> - Org-babel has special support for embedding your emacs
>   initialization in literate Org-mode files [7]
>
> To activate Org-babel simply grab the latest version of Org-mode and  
> add
> the following to your Emacs init (more complete instructions at [8]).
>
> (require 'org-babel-init)
>
> Thanks -- Eric
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php
>
> [2]  http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php#languages
>
> [3]  http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php#header-arguments
>
> [4]  http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php#library-of-babel
>
> [5]  http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php#reproducable-research
>
> [6]  http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php#literate-programming
>
> [7]  http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php#literate-emacs-initialization
>
> [8]  http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php#getting-started
>
>
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