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 _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode