Here is an amusing aside[fn:1]. Take the org file I posted previously: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* Table :noexport: #+TBLNAME: actions | abbrev | action | |--------+-----------------| | a | actionable | | b | bibulous | | c | califragilistic | #+begin_src python :results output :exports none :var table=actions print "* Results" print "#+begin_html" for row in table: print "<b>%s</b> <u>%s</u>%s<br/>" % (row[0], row[1][0:1], row[1][1:]) print "#+end_html" #+end_src --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- If I export this to html, I get nothing in the body because of the :noexport: tag. But if I evaluate the source block: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- * Table :noexport: #+TBLNAME: actions | abbrev | action | |--------+-----------------| | a | actionable | | b | bibulous | | c | califragilistic | #+begin_src python :results output :exports none :var table=actions print "* Results" print "#+begin_html" for row in table: print "<b>%s</b> <u>%s</u>%s<br/>" % (row[0], row[1][0:1], row[1][1:]) print "#+end_html" #+end_src #+results: #+begin_example * Results #+begin_html <b>a</b> <u>a</u>ctionable<br/> <b>b</b> <u>b</u>ibulous<br/> <b>c</b> <u>c</u>alifragilistic<br/> #+end_html #+end_example --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- and then export (*without* the manual excision of the #+{begin,end}_example), I get: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- <div id="outline-container-1" class="outline-2"> <h2 id="sec-1"><span class="section-number-2">1</span> Results </h2> <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-1"> <b>a</b> <u>a</u>ctionable<br/> <b>b</b> <u>b</u>ibulous<br/> <b>c</b> <u>c</u>alifragilistic<br/> </div> </div> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- which surprised me: the "* Results" line is interpreted as a new headline during export, despite the fact that it appears within an example block (that's probably a consequence of the ordering of actions in org-export-preprocess-string [fn:2]): the noexport tag strips everything to the "* Results" line, which I guess is surprising at first but makes sense, and the #+end_example line is silently discarded). Oh, no! Look what I've done: AndrĂ¡s will now insist that the whole thing has to be either documented completely or thrown out bodily :-) With-tongue-firmly-in-cheek-ly yours, Nick Footnotes: [fn:1] For some value of "amusing". [fn:2] See somewhere in this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/46021.