p.s. it _would_ be good to have an option, when exporting a "#+BEGIN_SRC
org" block, to use the Org export settings
from the main Org file, rather than exporting a fontified copy of the Org
buffer for the block.  Is there a way to do that currently?

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_...@alum.mit.edu>wrote:

> In Org, entry text can't have substructure (other than drawers and plain
> lists): you can't have an entry that
> has some text, then a subtree, then more text.
> I just (re-)discovered that you can get around that by using "#+BEGIN_SRC
> org" to include arbitrary org
> subtrees in the middle of entry text.   That's useful not just when
> writing in Org about Org, but anytime you want
> to insert an extended sidenote in the middle of an entry.  As with all
> source blocks, you edit it in its native (Org)
> mode and it exports correctly.  You can copy links from the main Org and
> past them into the nested Org.
>
> Just wish I'd learned this sooner :)  So, maybe mention this in the manual
> in the sections on drawers and plainlists.
>
> ilya
>
>

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