>Yes this is possible, see the "org" argument to the "comment" header
argument http://orgmode.org/manual/comments.html.

Right, I saw that, but it has the following limitation:

>The text is picked from the leading context of the tangled code and is
limited by the nearest headline or source block as the case may be.

I want all text from the Org file included, not just "leading context up to
nearest headline".   I also want the hierarchical structure
of the included text preserved, as done by ASCII export.   (E.g. I want to
include high-level documentation and description, as goes
at the top of an elisp file, and which can be broken into
sections/subsections/etc -- not just local documentation before a given
code block).
Is that possible?

thanks,

ilya


On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com> wrote:

> Yes this is possible, see the "org" argument to the "comment" header
> argument http://orgmode.org/manual/comments.html.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
> > Is it possible to combine org-babel tangling with ASCII export, so that
> > the tangled file would have ALL of the Org-file's content
> > as comments (preserving indentation etc as the ASCII export does),
> > with the code blocks inserted as non-comments?
> >
> > Basically I want to write the program in literate-programming form in
> > Org mode, but be able to export it into an executable form that's
> > independent of Org but still has all the information (not just the
> > text immediately before each code block).
> >
> > Thanks for help,
> >
> > ilya
> >
> >
>
> --
> Eric Schulte
> http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
>