>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
>
>

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