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+;;; litorgy-reference.el --- litorgical functions for referencing external data
+
+;; Copyright (C) 2009 Eric Schulte, Dan Davison, Austin F. Frank
+
+;; Author: Eric Schulte, Dan Davison, Austin F. Frank
+;; Keywords: literate programming, reproducible research
+;; Homepage: http://orgmode.org
+;; Version: 0.01
+
+;;; License:
+
+;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
+;; any later version.
+;;
+;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+;;
+;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
+;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+
+;;; Commentary:
+
+;; Functions for referencing data from the header arguments of a
+;; litorgical block.  The syntax of such a reference should be
+;;
+;;   #+VAR: variable-name file resource-id:name
+;;
+;; - variable-name :: the name of the variable to which the value
+;;                    will be assigned
+;;                    
+;; - file :: path to the file containing the resource, or omitted if
+;;           resource is in the current file
+;;
+;; - resource-id :: the id or name of the resource, or 'previous' to
+;;                  grab the previous table, or 'next' to grab the
+;;                  next table
+;;
+;; So an example of a simple src block referencing table data in the
+;; same file would be
+;;
+;; #+var: table previous
+;; #+begin_src emacs-lisp
+;; (message table)
+;; #+end_src
+;;
+
+;;; Code:
+(require 'litorgy)
+
+(provide 'litorgy-reference)
+;;; litorgy-reference.el ends here