Re: Org list source block

[Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hurri@iki.fi>]

Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

>> Once again I fail when I try to do something very _simple_ with Org.
>
> You're building programmatically your document. I don't believe it
> belongs to "very simple" tasks.

Coming from a LaTeX background, Org is a real miracle tool, but it is
difficult to figure out how to do some things that used to be so
simple. Like in LaTeX you have a single \newcommand (or
\newenvironment), and then you use it wherever you want to. And if you
need similar document structure in multiple places, that is how a
programmer always does it.

>> BTW, if there is a solution to this, I think future generations might
>> benefit if something about it were mentioned in the manual in section
>> 11.6 "Macro replacement".
>
> As you noticed already, you are not using a macro. Why would it be in
> macro replacement?

To help the confused reader. Because people like me (common or rare
case?) just think: ok, I am going to define a macro for this. Then we go
to the org document and look up macros. Then we start doing online
searches for macros with linebreaks. Then we find discussions on
stackoverflow that say: "No you should do it with babel." Then we try to
figure out how to do it with babel. Then we post here. And so on.

My two absolute favorite tools from recent years are Org and Asymptote,
but neither have very beginner-friendly documentation. Partially because
both systems are so complex.

Yeah, I know I shouldn't whine: I could write the sections myself. But
others can do it better... :-)

> I think something along the following lines should work.
>
>   #+NAME: mylist
>   #+BEGIN_SRC org :results raw :exports none
>   - [ ] foo 
>   - [ ] bar 
>   #+END_SRC
>
>   #+CALL: mylist() :results raw
>   #+RESULTS:
>   #+CALL: mylist() :results raw
>   #+RESULTS:

This worked after adding org to org-babel-do-load-languges. Thanks!

Jarmo