Hi Thomas,

Thomas S. Dye wrote:
> In this situation I often put the arguments in a named Org table and
> then write the Babel source code block to take a single argument--the
> table name--and parse the information passed in that way.  
>
> #+name: card-table
> | cname                   | gname      | photo                 | etc.|
> | Dr. Stefan Vollmar      | Stefan     | stefan-vollmar.jpg    | ... |
> | Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Jr. | Stefan Jr. | stefan-vollmar-jr.jpg | ... |
>
>
> #+call: mhead-hcard(card=card-table[0,]) for Stefan
>
> #+call: mhead-hcard(card=card-table[1,]) for Stefan Jr.
>
> If you don't mind writing some extra code for the Babel function, then
>
> #+call: mhead-hcard(card=card-table,gname="Stefan")
>
> etc.

And do you eventually have a way to write a "for-loop" for all the lines of
the tables, not being forced to write as many calls as the number of lines you
do have?

I don't see (immediately) how to do such, but that would really allow to
promote such a use case!

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sebastien Vauban


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