Aloha Seb,
"Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf-genee64ty+gs+fvcfc7...@public.gmane.org> writes: > 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! Not sure I understand your question. Perhaps I misunderstood Stefan's use case? There are several languages supported by Babel that have loop constructs. I was assuming that Stefan would use one of these when I suggested the possibility of writing some extra code. All the best, Tom -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com
