Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> writes: >>> I'm confused by [3] so I will say nothing for now, except to ask some >>> questions: are we talking about what a human would use to label a piece >>> of data for consumption by a block (including perhaps the future >>> possibilities of lists and paragraphs that Tom brought up)? what babel >>> would use to label a results block (possibly so that it could be >>> consumed by another block in a chain)? both? would that mean >>> that #+tblname would go the way of the dodo and that tables would be >>> labelled with #+data (or #+object or whatever else we come up with)? >> >> +1 (Confused, too) >> > > well, I guess it is good that this discussion has begun if only to clear > up this lingering uncertainty. > >> >> I wasn't even aware of #+DATA. Does it do anything TBLNAME and SRCNAME >> don't? >> > > from the prospective of code blocks it is exactly synonymous with > tblname. Srcname is different in that it labels code blocks. > >> >> A reason to keep TBLNAME is that it's also used by the spreadsheet >> remote references. If Babel looked for DATA instead, a table that is >> both a remote reference for another spreadsheet and a data source for >> a src block would need both TBLNAME and DATA, which seems redundant. >> > > agreed, I'm thinking that tblname will at least remain an option no > matter what decision is made. > >> >> As for labeling lists and paragraphs, I recall from the list that >> Nicolas Goaziou is working on a generalized way to set captions, >> labels and attributes for various kinds of Org block, as is possible >> now for tables and images. I thought that sounded promising. I don't >> know if he planned for block names, too (currently we have tblname but >> no imgname), but that could make sense. In which case it might be a >> good idea to coordinate. >> > > Agreed, I was not aware of this work. Thanks for sharing. In this vein > I would like to voice my desire to be able to add captions to code > blocks, the lack of this feature has bitten me in the past.
Hi Eric, For LaTeX export, the listings package has support for code block captions. hth, Tom -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com
