Re: [O] babel work flow

[Sebastien Vauban]

Hi Thomas,

Thomas S. Dye wrote:
> I want to use one of the dot utilities, tred, in a way that preserves my
> ability to distribute the Org-mode file as reproducible research, i.e.,
> intermediate results should end up in the Org-mode file or be passed
> along in a chain.
>
> Right now I have a python routine that reads a couple of Org-mode tables
> and outputs a valid dot graph.  I'm saving this to a file, dot-temp.gv,
> and then running some shell commands, like this:
>
> #+begin_src sh
>   tred dot-temp.gv > test.gv
>   dot -o test.pdf -Tpdf test.gv
>   open test.pdf
> #+end_src
>
> The graph is just what I want, but I can't see how to automate the
> process in Org-mode.  In particular, the tred step trips me up.  Do I
> have to make babel, tred-aware?

Sorry if I misunderstand, but could you be more explicit (for me) on what the
problem is?  Why is it a problem for you to have that sh block inside your
Org. It is executed automagically upon exporting, no?  If yes, why is that not
good enough?

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban