On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:08 AM, suvayu ali
<fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:53 PM, John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Doing this got me to thinking how it would be
>> quite neat to run code in a block but mark it to be omitted from
>> export for these kind of "setup" lines that are necessary for the
>> desired graphs but unnecessary for your reader to see over and over
>> again.
>>
>> Thoughts? I'm quite a novice and very possibly missed something that
>> can already do this.
>
> Hopefully I understood your question correctly. My solution to "setup"
> code blocks is use the noweb syntax. Following is an example with Gnuplot.
>
I didn't get it at first as I'm not familiar with noweb, but after
reading a bit, I think I get it.
>
> #+PROPERTY: noweb yes
> #+PROPERTY: results silent
> #+BIND: org-confirm-babel-evaluate nil
>
> * Gnuplot source
> #+name: preamble
> #+begin_src gnuplot
> reset
> set terminal pdfcairo color size 21cm,14.8cm
> set termoption enhanced
> set encoding utf8
> set termoption font "DejaVuSerif,8"
> # ...
> #+end_src
>
> #+begin_src gnuplot :noweb yes :var limits=Bpluslimits
> <<preamble>>
> plot "$limits" using 1:2 title 'Theory' set output
> #+end_src
>
> * Table
> #+tblname: Bpluslimits
> | | Theory |
> | | |
> |---+---------|
> | 1 | 3.6E-14 |
> | 2 | 3.6E-14 |
> | 3 | 6.3E-13 |
> | 4 | 6.3E-13 |
> | 5 | 1.7E-14 |
> | 6 | 1.7E-14 |
> | 7 | |
> #+tblfm: $1=(@#-2)
>
> * COMMENT local setup
>
> # Local Variables:
> # org-export-allow-BIND: t
> # End:
>
Gotcha. So I can define a preamble/postamble and be all set. Still
struggling on how to make this work for each file, though. I'm
guessing I need something like:
#+name: preamble
#+begin_src R :exports none
tikzDevice("file-name")
#+end_src
And by the org-mode Babel documentation it looks like I can do something like:
<<preamble(file-name=file_1.tex)>>
Or something like this? I didn't see much coverage explaining the
whole <<example-block(a=9>> bit at the end of the noweb section:
- http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html#literate-programming
I think this will work; I just need the bit on variable substitution.
Thanks a ton!
John
> HTH
>
> --
> Suvayu
>
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