Hi,
just want to point out, there is orgs beamer support which can easily place
blocks side by side.
Worg has a tutorial about this.
Torsten
On Dec 28, 2011 8:30 AM, "Nick Dokos" <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

> Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com> wrote:
>
> > On 12/27/11 9:37 PM, Eric Schulte wrote:
> > > Charles Turner<chturne@gmail.com>  writes:
> > >
> > >> Problem: I have two code blocks (#+BEGIN_SRC .. #+END) and I want to
> > >> display them side by side on the page, perhaps within an org table.
> > (...)
> > > Note that what you describe is likely possible using the existing
> > > exporter and writing some custom CSS to control how the serial content
> > > is displayed on the page.  The "display" css style would be relevant
> > > here.
> >
> > Yes,
> >
> >    pre.src {display: table-cell;}
> >
> > will do it in HTML. Full example follows below. I'll leave LaTeX to
> > those in the know...
> >
>
> Here's one (rather less elegant than Christian's CSS magic) way
> that preserves the HTML behavior:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+author: Christian Moe
> #+title: Side by side code blocks
> #+style: <style>pre.src {display: table-cell;}</style>
>
> How to say hello in two languages:
>
> #+LaTeX: \begin{minipage}[t]{2.5in}
> #+begin_src perl :results output
>   # Perl
>   sub say_hello {
>       print "Hello, world";
>   }
>
>   say_hello;
> #+end_src
> #+LaTeX: \end{minipage}\begin{minipage}[t]{2.5in}
> #+begin_src python :results output
>   # Python
>   def say_hello():
>       print("Hello, world")
>
>   say_hello()
> #+end_src
> #+LaTeX: \end{minipage}
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Anybody for ODT? while preserving the HTML and LaTeX behavior? :-) BTW,
> I use minted - I hope it works with listings but I have not tried it.
>
> Nick
>
> > hth,
> > Christian
> >
> > ---
> >
> > #+title: Side by side code blocks
> > #+style: <style>pre.src {display: table-cell;}</style>
> >
> > How to say hello in two languages:
> >
> > #+begin_src perl :results output
> >    # Perl
> >    sub say_hello {
> >        print "Hello, world";
> >    }
> >
> >    say_hello;
> > #+end_src
> > #+begin_src python :results output
> >    # Python
> >    def say_hello():
> >        print("Hello, world")
> >
> >    say_hello()
> > #+end_src
>
>