[Orgmode] Re: [babel] Environment around exported results

[Sébastien Vauban]

Hi Rainer,

Rainer M Krug wrote:
> On 24/09/10 11:28, Sébastien Vauban wrote:
>> "Eric Schulte" wrote:
>>> Sébastien Vauban <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> "Eric Schulte" wrote:
>>>>>> Would you mind creating an LaTeX environment around the =results=
>>>>>> block, so that we could have the code colorized (via listings or
>>>>>> Minted), and clearly distinguish the results, if we want so.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Having an environment would allow one to use non-proportional font for
>>>>>> the results, or a shadowed background, or...
>>>>>
>>>>> Would such an environment be in addition too or in place of wrapping
>>>>> results in the example environment?
>>>>
>>>> I would think of something like this:
>>>>
>>>> \begin{orgresults}
>>>> <... results block ...>
>>>> \end{orgresults}
>>>>
>>>> so that one can customize the =orgresults= environment in LaTeX to get a
>>>> colored background, another font, etc.
>>>>
>>>>> One very nice property of the current setup is that it relies solely on
>>>>> vanilla Org-mode for export features. If the example export of Org-mode
>>>>> allowed some form of customization through a customizable div class or
>>>>> latex environment would that be sufficient?
>>>>
>>>> The name of the environment could be in a variable, yes.
>>>>
>>>> But please note the above request can come out of a misunderstanding or
>>>> poor knowledge of already existing parametrization of Org-Babel. Put me
>>>> back on tracks if needed...
>>>
>>> I think you've made a good point for adding this functionality.
>> 
>> Thanks ;-)
>> 
>>> I'll put this on the Babel TODO stack, and reply to this email when we get
>>> something implemented.
>> 
>> FYI, I think it such a thing should be on by default, but with a
>> possibility to disable it, block per block (or subtree, or file, ...).
>> 
>> Something like a =:nowrapper= header argument?
>
> Probably even one step further: being able to specify the environment to be
> used in a header argument, so we would have three possible scenarios:
>
> 1) default (equals to :wrapper orgresults)   : using \begin{orgresults}
>    ... \end{orgresult}
> 2) :nowrapper  : using no wrapper around the results block
> 3) :wrapper myEnvironment : using \begin{myEnvironment} ...
>    \end{myEnvironment}

Sure!  This would make *a lot of sense*, IMHO.


> This could possibly even extended to source blocks as well, enabling the use
> of different formating for different source blocks?

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sébastien Vauban