Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > On Friday, 19 Mar 2021 at 14:59, Loris Bennett wrote: >> To be honest, I find it is a wee bit confusing that it's >> >> #+PROPERTY: header-args:sh :var user="loris" >> >> *without* a colon after the language (if I add it, there is not error, >> but the variable is just not set) but >> >> :PROPERTIES: >> :header-args:sh: :var user="loris" >> :END: > > When in a property drawer, the name of the property you want to set is > enclosed within a pair of :s. When in a #+PROPERTY statement, there is > no need for the :s, just the name. It's not about the language part of > it at all.
Thanks for the clarification. I didn't think it was about the language part - I was just using the position describe which colon I meant. The colon gets to do quite a lot of work in Org :-) Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under construction.
