[Orgmode] Re: [babel] FEATURE REQUEST: send results into file

[Sébastien Vauban]

Hi Rainer,

Rainer M Krug wrote:
> Based on a discussion in the thread "Problem with PROPERTIES :OPTIONS: when
> exporting subtree", The idea came ub by Mathew Lundin to be able to "send
> the results or a source code block (either executed code or exported org
> snippets) via babel to a target in an external file.".
>
> The scenario or context in which the idea came up:
>
> I am using org babel for literate programming and I document my parameters
> for simulations in a table in org. Now when writing a paper, for which I use
> a different program (I use LyX), but I still would like to include the
> tables from my original org file in them. Therefore I was looking for a
> possibility to export ONLY the table into a .tex file, so that it can be
> included in the LyX / LaTeX via \input{theTable.tex} . Therefore I would
> need an export of the table in LaTeX format, but no preamble or anything.

*Side question*, because this is quite important, I think: why are you still
using LyX directly?

For my literate programming needs, I've been able to completely forget about
my past ways to do:

- Nuweb (in MS Windows) extensions to LaTeX
- Noweb (in Linux) extensions to LaTeX

and switch, with much more benefits, to Org-only files. What is stopping you
from being able to do so?  That root cause should be fixed, IMHO -- if doable,
of course...


> As far as I was told, this possibility does not exist in org.

If I understand correctly, this is, indeed, the difficulty Eric exposed us,
when I was working on the isodoc letter (trying to convert Org blocks to
LaTeX, and get everything assembled upon exporting).

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sébastien Vauban