Re: [Orgmode] [babel] Bug in output PDF with source blocks of unknown language

[Eric Schulte]

This should now be fixed.

"Eric Schulte" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Sébastien,
>
> Sébastien Vauban <address@hidden> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> * Bug
>>
>>   You see that when the language is unknown to Org-babel (=Delphi= in this
>>   example), it gets ignored during export, and gets replaced by the previous
>>   code block!!
>>
>>   So, the current workaround is to take whatever other language know to Babel
>>   (here: =perl=) for the export to (at least) output the right code in the
>>   generated document (even if not correctly highlighted).
>>
>
> Oh, that certainly is a problem!  Thanks for reporting I'll take a look.
> For reference it's being tracked as a bug on our development page here
>
> http://eschulte.github.com/babel-dev/TODO-on-export-babel-overwrites-unrecognized-source-blocks.html
>
>>
>> * Other problem
>>
>>   The selected language must also be known by =listings=... Hence, =R= cannot
>>   be chosen for language; generating otherwise an error when compiling the
>>   LaTeX document.
>>
>
> This should be an easier fix.  It is possible to add listings alias by
> adding an entry to the `org-src-lang-modes' variable.
>
> ,----[org-src-lang-modes]
> | org-src-lang-modes is a variable defined in `org-src.el'.
> | Its value is 
> | (("ocaml" . tuareg)
> |  ("elisp" . emacs-lisp)
> |  ("ditaa" . artist)
> |  ("asymptote" . asy)
> |  ("dot" . fundamental))
> | 
> | 
> | Documentation:
> | Alist mapping languages to their major mode.
> | The key is the language name, the value is the string that should
> | be inserted as the name of the major mode.  For many languages this is
> | simple, but for language where this is not the case, this variable
> | provides a way to simplify things on the user side.
> | For example, there is no ocaml-mode in Emacs, but the mode to use is
> | `tuareg-mode'.
> | 
> | You can customize this variable.
> `----
>
> Best -- Eric
>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>   Seb
>>
>> PS- I'll answer your posts shortly (Noweb vs Babel, and incompatibility with
>>     Org-special-blocks). Have had no time up to now...
>
> I look forward to your reply when you do have time (no rush) -- notice
> I've made a slight change to the look of the source names when exported
> to LaTeX.