Dear Nick, 2014-07-21 12:19 GMT+02:00 Nick Dokos <ndo...@gmail.com>:
> I don't understand: what language are you trying to export to? My take > was that you export the doc to latex/pdf/html and you tangle the code > fragments to some arbitrary file (a file that can be fed to a prolog > interpeter to be executed). > You have quite correctly undersood me. > > > This is a (lisp)programmers task. The usual proceeding would be to look > > at the list of extisting ob-<language>.el files and pick a language that > > is very similar to the new one (in case of prolog maybe a difficult > > task?). Then try to adapt this file to your new language -> ob-prolog.el. > > Assuming that the statement I quoted is true, one should be able to > export files that contain prolog code fragments: > > #+BEGIN_SRC prolog > foo > #+END_SRC > > One has to do `:exports code' since exporting results would require > evaluation which *would* require that one write an ob-prolog.el. > > Also, one should be able to tangle the prolog code fragment(s) into > files (no ob-prolog.el needed). > It is only because I do not understand how to "tangle the (prolog) code". I know the export function but I know nothing about tangle. Do not feel forced to answer. I know that I have to read the documentation first and I apologize. > Exporting and tangling are generic services that babel provides even if > there is no evaluation for that language. > > But as I said, I have not tried it: I am only trying to interpret what > the doc is saying, so when the eating comes, the pudding may be stale. > If the interpretation is wrong, I would love to be corrected. If the > interpretation is right, but the exporting/tangling does not work, then > that would be a babel bug. > I do not know. Best wishes, Jo.
