[Orgmode] Re: [babel] dot in pdf directly

[andrea Crotti]

Eric Schulte <schulte.eric <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Note that the solution I'm about to propose relies on the use of
> org-babel and #+begin_src dot blocks rather than #+begin_dot blocks.
> 
> When in these situations I will often set the block so that neither the
> code or the resulting image is exported, and so that the results of
> block evaluation are silent.
> 
> #+begin_src dot :file file.pdf :cmdline -Tpdf :exports none :results silent
> ...
> #+end_src
> 
> Then I manually add file links to the image throughout my document.
> 
> [[file:file.pdf]]
> 
> Whenever I change the contents of the block I manually re-evaluate the
> block with C-c C-c and the image to which all of the links point is
> updated.
> 
> Best -- Eric
> 

Ok that's really perfect!
The only "problem" is that it keeps exporting the code even without
the :exports none, maybe I need some newlines?

**** s2
#+BEGIN_SRC dot :file s2.pdf :cmdline -Tpdf :exports none :results silent
    digraph s1 {
    t1;
    t2;
    }
#+END_SRC

    [[file:s2.pdf]]