Hi Tom, I certainly believe what you describe should be possible, although it pains me to imagine embedding pure latex code in an Org-mode document and losing the ability to use the org latex export helpers :), but I digress.
Org-babel needs to be told to recognize latex source code blocks and how
they should be tangled, which can be accomplished with the following
(org-babel-add-interpreter "latex")
(add-to-list 'org-babel-tangle-langs '("latex" "tex"))
Once that is done `org-babel-tangle' should do the trick.
for example, after evaluating the above I was able to tangle the
following .org file into the following .tex file.
babel-latex.org
Description: Binary data
latex-thesis.tex
Description: TeX document
Hope this suits your needs. Cheers -- Eric
"Thomas S. Dye" <t...@tsdye.com> writes:
> Aloha all,
>
> Is it possible (or would it be useful) to leverage the literate programming
> facilities of org-babel to
> write LaTeX code?
>
> I'd like to weave a document that describes how some thesis/idea/story can be
> developed/elaborated/told
> and then tangle an instance of 'developed thesis'/'elaborated idea'/'told
> story' that LaTeX can make
> presentable. The motivation for this is a desire to have one source document
> that will tangle 1) a slide
> presentation via beamer, and 2) a print document for publication. The two
> share a common organization/
> structure/plot but there are radically different presentation mode
> constraints.
>
> Org-mode is a terrific tool for organizing, structuring, and plotting.
> Org-babel seems to be a likely
> candidate for abstracting the different presentation modes.
>
> Here is some pseudo-code for illustration:
>
> * Idea 1
>
> #+srcname: beamer-idea-1
>
> #+begin_src latex :exports none
>
> \begin{itemize}
>
> \item first concept
>
> \item second concept
>
> \end{itemize}
>
> #+end_src
>
> #+srcname: latex-idea-1
>
> #+begin_src latex :exports none
>
> The first concept was developed by \citet{author1}. It later became the
> basis for the second concept \citep{author2}. ...
>
> #+end_src
>
> #+srcname: beamer-presentation
>
> #+begin_src latex :tangle beamer-thesis :exports none
>
> # <<beamer-idea-1>>
>
> # <<beamer-idea-2>>
>
> ...
>
> #+end_src
>
> #+srcname: latex-presentation
>
> #+begin_src latex :tangle latex-thesis :exports none
>
> # <<latex-idea-1>>
>
> # <<latex-idea-2>>
>
> ...
>
> #+end_src
>
> Tom
>
> Thomas S. Dye, Ph.D.
>
> T. S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, Inc.
>
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>
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>
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