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[Orgmode] [PATCH] tangling is not a widely-known term, describe it as li


From: Brian Gough
Subject: [Orgmode] [PATCH] tangling is not a widely-known term, describe it as literate programming
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 21:05:32 +0000

---
 doc/org.texi |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/org.texi b/doc/org.texi
index 1a2b3dd..930f948 100644
--- a/doc/org.texi
+++ b/doc/org.texi
@@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ create dynamic @i{agenda views}.
 
 Org mode contains the Org Babel environment which allows you to work with
 embedded source code blocks in a file, to facilitate code evaluation,
-documentation, and tangling.
+documentation, and literate programming techniques.
 
 Org's automatic, context-sensitive table editor with spreadsheet
 capabilities can be integrated into any major mode by activating the
@@ -11103,7 +11103,8 @@ Source code can be included in Org-mode documents using 
a @samp{src} block,
 
 Org-mode provides a number of features for working with live source code,
 including editing of code blocks in their native major-mode, evaluation of
-code blocks, tangling of code blocks, and exporting code blocks and their
+code blocks, converting code blocks into source files (known as @dfn{tangling} 
+in literate programming), and exporting code blocks and their
 results in several formats.  This functionality was contributed by Eric
 Schulte and Dan Davison, and was originally named Org-babel.
 
-- 
1.6.0.6




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