If it weren't wrapped, it would be exported and not show up in the document text.
-k. On 2015-04-04 at 11:41, Lawrence Bottorff <borg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm taking a closer look at Eric Neilsen's "Emacs org-mode examples and > cookbook," specifically the org file Eric sent me. And right off the bat I > see something interesting: > > ** General metadata > > An initial group sets the metadata used in any title pages, headers, > footers, etc. used by the various exporters: > > #+NAME: orgmode-header-metadata > #+BEGIN_SRC org > #+TITLE: Emacs org-mode examples > #+AUTHOR: Eric H. Neilsen, Jr. > #+EMAIL: neil...@fnal.gov > #+END_SRC > > . . . which shows up in the final html version as just > > #+TITLE: Emacs org-mode examples > #+AUTHOR: Eric H. Neilsen, Jr. > #+EMAIL: neil...@fnal.gov > > Why did he use what looks like babel source formatting? What is gained from > having org "code" as literate programming? Any docs talking specifically > about this, best practices? My first guess is he's just using this as an > org-to-html formatting convention, but, again, how much of "org code" > (whatever we call "org code") can I put in babel source containers? > > LB